Æ23 - Elagabalus ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΧΑΡΙΞΕΝΟΥ ϹΤΡΑ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ

Hypaepa was a small Lydian city whose coins survive in embarrassingly small numbers — most known specimens are one-offs or appear in single-digit census counts. The magistrate name rendered here, Aurelius Charixenos, marks him as a Roman citizen of likely recent enfranchisement, probably within a generation of the Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD, which flooded the eastern provinces with new Aurelii. He served as strategos under a teenage emperor whose four-year reign generated an unusual volume of provincial bronze across the Ephesian conventus.