Æ22 - Augustus ΟΔΗΣΙΤ

Odessos, the Greek colony on the Black Sea coast of modern Bulgaria, maintained a tradition of civic bronze coinage well into the imperial period — issuing in its own name long after many neighboring cities had subordinated their mints entirely to Roman iconographic demands. The magistrate's name, where present on these bronzes, often provides the only surviving record of local administrative figures otherwise absent from the literary or epigraphic record.