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Antioch on the Maeander was a minor Carian city whose civic coinage under the Antonines was modest in both volume and ambition. The years 182–184 correspond to the period immediately following Commodus's assumption of sole rule after Marcus Aurelius died in March 180 — a transition the eastern provincial cities marked with a fresh wave of portrait issues, partly as a bureaucratic formality of loyalty, partly because new reigns meant new authorization cycles for local bronze production.

The Conventus of Alabanda grouped several small Carian cities for administrative and judicial purposes, and coin output from these centers tends toward low survival rates.