Æ23 - Antoninus Pius ΖΕΥϹ ΑΚΡΑΙΟϹ ΜΑΓΝΗΤωΝ

Zeus Akraios — Zeus of the Mountain Peaks — was a cult specific to the region around Magnesia on the Maeander, where worship at elevated shrines predated the Hellenistic city itself. The Magnetes' decision to invoke this epithet under Antoninus Pius, rather than the more politically convenient Olympian Zeus, was a deliberate assertion of local religious identity at a moment when Greek civic coinages were increasingly homogenizing around imperial flattery.

Antoninus Pius encouraged provincial bronze issues as a matter of policy, reducing pressure on the central silver supply. The Magnetes were among dozens of Achaean communities that took advantage of this latitude.