Grimenothyrae was a minor Lydian city of such limited prominence that its civic coinage under Hadrian constitutes essentially the entire surviving numismatic record of the settlement. The conventus of Sardis — the Roman judicial district under which it fell — encompassed dozens of small communities that struck bronze locally, largely to facilitate transactions at regional markets and religious festivals rather than for any broader monetary purpose.
The city's name appears in variant spellings across ancient sources, and ΓΡΕΙΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΩΝ on the legend itself represents one of the more stable attestations we have of the toponym.
Grimenothyrae was a minor Lydian city of such limited prominence that its civic coinage under Hadrian constitutes essentially the entire surviving numismatic record of the settlement. The conventus of Sardis — the Roman judicial district under which it fell — encompassed dozens of small communities that struck bronze locally, largely to facilitate transactions at regional markets and religious festivals rather than for any broader monetary purpose.
The city's name appears in variant spellings across ancient sources, and ΓΡΕΙΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΩΝ on the legend itself represents one of the more stable attestations we have of the toponym.