Æ21 - Vespasian ΕΠΙ Ν ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟΥ ΚΟΛΛΗΓΑ

Pessinus was among the most politically charged cities in Galatia — home to the great sanctuary of Cybele, the Magna Mater, whose priests had maintained extraordinary autonomy through successive Hellenistic and Roman administrations. The magistrate named in the legend, N. Pompeius Collega, served as the Roman official overseeing the region during the mid-Flavian period, a time when Vespasian was aggressively reorganizing provincial administration across Asia Minor to consolidate revenues after the civil wars of 69 AD.

Bronze civic issues from Pessinus are genuinely scarce in any condition. The city's mint was intermittently active at best.