Æ20 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ ΜΟΛΟΞΟΥ

Sala was a small Lydian city in the Hermus valley whose civic coinage is poorly represented in major collections, making even routine bronze issues from the town genuinely scarce. The magistrate name Moloxos in the inscription places this piece within a locally administered series — provincial bronzes of this type were authorized under Roman oversight through the conventus system, with Sardis serving as the administrative hub for the surrounding region. Caracalla's reign saw a notable expansion of such civic issues across Asia Minor, partly driven by his 212 AD Constitutio Antoniniana extending citizenship broadly across the empire.