Æ24 - Antoninus Pius ΖΕΥϹ ΑΚΡΑΙΟϹ ΜΑΓΝΗΤωΝ

Zeus Akraios — "Zeus of the Peaks" — was a distinctly Thessalian cult figure, worshipped at high-altitude sanctuaries in the region around Mount Pelion, where the Magnesians had venerated him for centuries before Roman rule. The Magnetes, a loose ethnic confederation along the eastern Thessalian coast, used civic bronze coinage partly to assert that local religious identity, maintaining cult epithets that Roman administration had no particular reason to suppress.

The reign of Antoninus Pius saw a broad flowering of provincial civic coinage across Greece and Asia Minor, driven largely by imperial indifference — his administration rarely interfered with local minting traditions.