Æ24 - Antoninus Pius ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Dionysopolis in Phrygia was a minor civic mint that struck bronze almost exclusively under imperial patronage, issuing coins to assert local identity within the Apamean conventus — the judicial district through which Roman administrative reach extended into the Phrygian interior. Under Antoninus Pius, whose reign saw an unusual proliferation of small civic bronzes across Asia Minor, even modestly ranked poleis gained occasion to produce coinage tied to imperial recognition. The city's name, invoking Dionysus, reflects the deep Hellenistic religious geography of the region long before Roman organization imposed its circuit courts.