Æ26 - Trajan Decius ΕΠ ΑΡΤΕΜΑ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ ϹΙΠΥΛΟΥ, ϹΤΡ

Magnesia ad Sipylum sat in the Hermus valley at the foot of Mount Sipylus, administratively tied to the Smyrna conventus for Roman judicial and administrative purposes. The magistrate name recorded in the legend — Artemas — is otherwise poorly documented, and his tenure falls squarely within the two-year reign of Decius, a period when provincial bronze coinage across Asia Minor was already beginning its terminal decline as the silver antoninianus crowded civic issues out of practical use.

Within a decade of this striking, most cities in the Smyrna conventus had ceased independent bronze production entirely.