Æ22 - Commodus ΑΤΤΑΛΕΑΤΩΝ

Attalea in Lydia — not to be confused with the better-known Attaleia in Pamphylia — was a modest civic mint that struck bronze under Roman provincial authority during the Antonine and Severan periods. Its issues under Commodus correspond to the years when the emperor was consolidating a personality cult of increasing eccentricity in Rome, though provincial mints in the Pergamene conventus operated with considerable administrative independence and showed little reflection of that turbulence.