Æ24 - Domitian ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΒΝΡ ΠΡ ΜΕ, ΔΗ/ ΑΛ/ ΚΑ

Pompeiopolis in Cilicia was founded by Pompey the Great following his decisive campaign against the Cilician pirates in 67 BC, and the city retained a fierce pride in that origin well into the imperial period. The civic dating system encoded in this coin's legend — the ΒΝΡ ΠΡ ΜΕ notation reflecting local era reckoning — places it precisely within Domitian's reign, a period when eastern civic bronzes were largely self-administered, with Rome indifferent to their internal chronologies. The ΔΗ/ ΑΛ/ ΚΑ abbreviations likely denote local magistrates, none of whom can be identified with certainty from surviving records.