Æ24 - Antoninus Pius ΚΟΡΗ ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ

Nysa-on-the-Maeander was one of the more culturally assertive cities of inland Lydia, and its civic coinage under Antoninus Pius reflects a deliberate effort to advertise local religious identity to the wider Roman world. The epithet ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ anchors the Kore figure specifically to Nysa's own mystery cult, distinct from the pan-Hellenic Eleusinian tradition — a pointed claim of local theological ownership at a time when civic pride was expressed through bronze rather than marble.