Æ24 - Elagabalus ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΥ ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ

Cotiaeum, modern Kütahya in Phrygia, was a mid-ranking conventus city that struck bronze under Roman provincial authority during Elagabalus's reign — a four-year tenure so spectacularly destabilizing that the Senate formally condemned his memory after his murder in 222. The magistrate name in the legend, Aurelius Markianos, anchors this piece to a specific administrative moment: local archons in Phrygian cities held genuine civic prestige and often funded or supervised civic bronze issues personally. That his full nomenclature was preserved in the die is itself a small act of local self-promotion.