Æ22 - Commodus ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ

Cyzicus was one of the most monetarily active cities in the Propontis, with a long tradition of autonomous bronze coinage that persisted well into the imperial period. This issue falls within Commodus's early reign, before the paranoid self-deification that defined his later years — the period when he began demanding to be addressed as Hercules Romanus and renamed Rome itself Colonia Commodiana.

The civic mint at Cyzicus operated under the conventus system, meaning local magistrates retained nominal authority over bronze production while Rome controlled the silver.