Æ22 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΔΙοΔΩΡοΥ ΜΑΙοΝΩΝ

Maeonia was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended almost entirely on the tenure of individual Roman magistrates — the ΕΠΙ formula naming Diodorus here marks him as the presiding authority under whom this issue was authorized, a reminder that local bronze production in the Sardis conventus was bureaucratically tethered to Rome in ways the larger Asian mints were not. These small civic bronzes circulated within a tight regional economy; few left Lydia at all.