Æ24 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ΦΙΛοΜΗΛοΥ Γ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ

Hypaepa was a small Lydian city in the Cayster River valley, administratively grouped under the Ephesus conventus for judicial and civic purposes. The magistrate name preserved in this inscription — Philomelos, serving in his third term — is one of the few ways scholars anchor the city's internal civic calendar during the joint reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. Provincial bronze of this region was struck locally to supplement Roman silver in everyday transactions, and Hypaepa's output was modest enough that individual magistrate sequences remain only partially reconstructed.