Æ24 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΕΛΕΥΚ ΑΒΙΛΑ ϚΚϹ

Abila — modern Quweilibeh in Jordan — was one of the cities of the Decapolis, and its civic bronze coinage operated on a local era tied to the Pompeian settlement of Syria in 64/63 BC. The year designation ϚΚϹ (226) places this piece within the early co-reign of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, shortly after Antoninus Pius died in March 161. Civic bronzes from the Decapolis cities during this period reflect the administrative reorganization under the new province of Arabia, created by Trajan in 106 AD when he annexed the Nabataean kingdom.