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Æ23 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΕΠΙΤΥΝΧ
| Issuer | Magnesia ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Miletus) |
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| Year | 144-161 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Magnesia ad Maeandrum held a long-standing rivalry with neighboring Miletus over regional primacy, and civic bronze issues like this one — bearing the magistrate's name Epitynchanon in the abbreviated legend — functioned partly as assertions of local administrative identity within the Milesian conventus. The grammateus, or city secretary, named on the obverse was an elected annual magistrate whose tenure defined the dating of civic coinage in the absence of a regnal calendar.
Antoninus Pius never visited the eastern provinces, yet civic mints across Asia Minor issued bronze in his name throughout his reign with notable consistency.