Æ19 - Nero ΓΛΥΚΩΝ ΙΕΡΕΥΣ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΩΝ

Heraclea Salbace was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage under Nero was issued through the conventus system, with Alabanda serving as the administrative center for the district. The magistrate name ΓΛΥΚΩΝ, rendered here in the genitive as part of the priestly title, identifies the issuing authority as a local hiereus — a civic priest — of Heraclean civic cult, a formula common to Carian bronze issues of the Julio-Claudian period but specific enough to this city to aid attribution. Such small Carian bronzes circulated hyper-locally and rarely traveled far from their issuing community.