Æ23 - Antoninus Pius ΜΗΝοΦΑΝΤοϹ ΙΕΡ ΑΝΕΘ ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ

Tabala was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Antoninus Pius is poorly documented in ancient literary sources, surviving almost exclusively through the coins themselves. The magistrate name ΜΗΝΟΦΑΝΤΟΣ — Menophantos — appears on a small number of known specimens from this city, suggesting a short tenure or limited issuing authority. Provincial civic bronzes of this type were struck not by imperial mandate but at local initiative, typically to fund municipal needs or mark civic pride, and Tabala's output across the entire Antonine period remains among the thinner documented series in Lydian numismatics.