Æ19 - Trajan ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ ΜΑΤΡΟ

Heraclea Pontica had a complicated relationship with Roman authority by Trajan's reign — the city had been absorbed into the province of Bithynia et Pontus under Pompey's reorganization in 64 BC, but retained enough civic identity to strike its own bronze well into the imperial period. The magistrate name partially preserved in the reverse legend, likely a local strategos or grammateus, is one of the few surviving traces of Heraclea's municipal administration under Trajan.