Æ21 - Hadrian ΕΠΙ Μ ΑΤ ΜΗΤΡΟΓΕΝΟΥϹ ΑΙΖΑΝΕΙ (ΩΝ)

Aezanis, a Phrygian city in the conventus of Sardis, was among the more prosperous inland communities of Roman Asia Minor, its civic coinage under Hadrian reflecting the administrative reorganization that followed Trajan's death in 117. The magistrate name ΜΗΤΡΟΓΕΝΟΥϹ — Metrogenous — appears on a narrow range of Hadrianic bronzes from the city, making him one of the more precisely datable stratēgoi in the local series. Aezanis is better known to archaeologists than numismatists; its Temple of Zeus, unusually well-preserved, served simultaneously as a grain market.