Æ19 - Hadrian ΚΥΜΑΙωΝ

Cyme, one of the oldest Aeolian Greek foundations on the Aegean coast, retained the right to strike civic bronze under Roman imperial oversight through the conventus system, whereby Smyrna served as the administrative hub for regional judicial and monetary affairs. Local bronze of this type circulated almost exclusively within the immediate civic territory — Rome had no interest in standardizing the fractional small change of provincial cities, so Cyme's magistrates effectively ran their own show at the lower end of the monetary spectrum.