Æ19 - Marcus Aurelius ΚΑΔΟΗΝΩΝ

Cadi was a minor Phrygian city in the Sardis conventus — one of the judicial districts Rome used to administer Asia Minor — with a modest civic coinage that surged briefly under the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. The 178–179 window corresponds almost exactly to the period when Commodus was elevated to co-emperor, a political event that prompted numerous provincial mints to issue fresh civic bronzes acknowledging the new dynastic arrangement.

The ethnic ΚΑΔΟΗΝΩΝ places this firmly among the city's self-identifying issues, a practice Phrygian towns maintained tenaciously long after such autonomy had become largely ceremonial.