Æ21 - Trajan ϹΤΡ-Α ΑΔΡΑ-ΜΥΤΗΝΩΝ

Adramyteum, a coastal city on the Aegean shore of Mysia, held enough commercial weight under the Principate to strike its own civic bronze — a privilege Rome extended selectively and could revoke. The city's port gave it leverage; it appears in Roman records primarily as a transit point for goods moving between the interior of Asia Minor and the Aegean. This piece dates somewhere within Trajan's nearly two-decade reign, a period when provincial minting in the conventus of Adramyteum was loosely supervised by the proconsul of Asia rather than directly controlled from Rome.