Æ25 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΓΡ ΠΡΩΤΕοΥ ΑΔ ΑΥΡΗ ΝΕΑΠοΛΕΙΤω

Neapolis ad Harpasum was a small Lydian city in the conventus of Alabanda whose civic coinage under Antoninus Pius represents one of the more obscure provincial series from western Anatolia. The magistrate named in the obverse legend — whose name survives in the abbreviated form preserved here — held a civic administrative role, likely a grammateus or strategus, responsible for authorizing the local bronze issue. These mid-second century Lydian bronzes circulated within tightly bounded regional economies and rarely traveled far from their issuing city.