Æ23 - Marcus Aurelius ΜΕΙΛΗΤΟϹ ΚΤΙϹΤΗϹ

Miletopolis, a small Mysian city in the conventus of Cyzicus, claimed descent from Miletus and periodically asserted that founding myth on its coinage — the epithet ΜΕΙΛΗΤΟϹ ΚΤΙϹΤΗϹ, invoking the legendary oikist, was a deliberate piece of civic self-promotion rather than historical record. Such claims were not uncommon among Asia Minor's lesser cities competing for Roman patronage and the prestige of neokorate status. The early co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, beginning 161 AD, prompted renewed provincial coin production across the conventus.