Æ22 - Demos ΔΙΑ ΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥ

Attuda, a Carian city of modest political standing, issued this bronze under the magistrate Menippos during the Flavian-to-Trajanic window — a period when Greek civic mints across Asia Minor were aggressively reasserting local identity through bronze coinage, partly because the Roman imperial administration had largely withdrawn from supervising small civic issues. The obverse authority here is Demos itself, the personified citizenry, which was an ideological choice: presenting the people, rather than a magistrate or emperor, as the issuing power signals a community leaning hard into the conventions of civic autonomy.

RPC II 1229 records very few specimens, and the BMC entry (RE 6) draws from a similarly thin base.