Æ19 - Trajan ΥΡΚΑΝΩΝ ϹΤΡ Μ ΒΕ ΚΥΙΝΤΙΑΝΟΥ

Hyrcanis was a minor Lydian city in the Hermus River valley whose civic coinage under Trajan represents nearly the full extent of its numismatic output known to scholarship. The magistrate name Κυιντιανός — a Latinized cognomen rendered in Greek — points to the deep penetration of Roman naming conventions into provincial administrative appointments by the early second century. The strategos title carried genuine administrative weight in the conventus system, with Smyrna acting as the judicial center to which Hyrcanis was subordinate for Roman legal proceedings.