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Æ20 - Marcus Aurelius ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 163-169 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Lucilla facing right, her hair elaborately arranged and bound, depicted as Augusta in the Provincial Greek style. The effigy is rendered with characteristic Antonine portraiture, showing the empress with a diademed coiffure. The encircling Greek legend is distributed around the bust in the field. The flan shows typical irregular hammered fabric of an Ionian civic issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΛΟΥΚΙΛΛΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum had long leveraged its claim as the mythological birthplace of Themistocles to punch above its weight in the civic coinage hierarchy of the Maeander valley. Under Marcus Aurelius, the city was navigating the pressures of the Parthian War and a devastating plague that swept the eastern provinces after 165 — the so-called Antonine Plague, which Galen documented firsthand and which killed perhaps five million people across the empire.
The conventus at Miletus administered coin authorization for this region, meaning Magnesia's issues required approval from the Roman proconsul of Asia.