Æ21 - Antoninus Pius ΒΛΑΥ?ΝΔΕΩΝ

Blaundus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under the Antonines is poorly documented and survives in small numbers. The reading of the ethnic on this issue remains disputed — the partially illegible legend has generated more than one proposed restoration among specialists, none yet conclusive. Attribution to the Sardis conventus is secure, but the city's output was modest enough that individual dies are rarely matched across more than a handful of specimens.