Æ25 - Trajan ΕΠΙ ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΥ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ

Hypaepa was a minor Lydian city in the Cayster River valley, administratively subordinate to the conventus at Ephesus, which handled judicial and civic affairs for the surrounding region under Roman provincial organization. The magistrate named in this issue — rendered as Lukios Strategos — is otherwise unattested in surviving epigraphy, making coins like this one among the only evidence that he held office at all. Provincial bronzes of this conventus are notably underrepresented in major collections, and individual magistrate attributions for Hypaepa remain poorly documented in the scholarly literature.