Æ21 - Antoninus Pius ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΑΤΩΝ

Apollonia ad Rhyndacum, situated in Mysia near the river Rhyndacus, was a modest civic mint that struck bronze issues under the *conventus* of Cyzicus — the Roman administrative district through which provincial judicial and financial authority flowed. Under Antoninus Pius, civic bronze production across Asia Minor expanded considerably, partly because the emperor's notably stable and unwarlike reign reduced pressure on imperial mints and allowed local authorities room to assert their own coinage programs. This piece is a product of that quiet confidence.