Æ26 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΡΓΕΙΩΝ

Argos claimed to be the oldest city in Greece — a boast the city backed aggressively in its coinage under the Antonines. The civic bronze issues of this period were largely prestige objects, circulating within a regional economy increasingly dominated by Roman financial infrastructure, but carrying iconographic assertions of Argive primacy that Roman emperors were content to indulge.

The reign dates here narrow to the co-emperorship period before Lucius Verus died in 169 AD, leaving Marcus to rule alone.