Æ21 - Hadrian ΜΥΛΑ/ϹΕΩΝ

Mylasa was one of the most politically fractious cities in Caria, having spent the Hellenistic period cycling through Hecatomnid dynasts, Ptolemaic garrisons, and Seleucid pressure before settling into Roman provincial administration. Its inclusion in the Alabanda conventus — the judicial district centered further north — reflects Roman administrative pragmatism rather than any natural geographic or cultural alignment. Local bronze issues like this one functioned exclusively within civic circulation, with no pretense of wider acceptance.