Æ23 - Antoninus Pius ϹΚΟΠΕΛΙΑΝΟϹ ΖΕΥΞΙ ΤΗΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΥϹΙ

Temenothyrae was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the goodwill of local magistrates willing to fund issues at their own expense — a practice of euergetism that explains why the magistrate name ϹΚΟΠΕΛΙΑΝΟϹ ΖΕΥΞΙ appears so prominently. Without such private patronage, cities of this rank within the Sardis conventus often went years without striking bronze at all.