Æ26 - Trajan Decius ΚΙΒΥΡΑΤωΝ

Cibyra occupied an unusual administrative position in Asia Minor — though geographically Phrygian, it was made the seat of its own conventus under Roman reorganization, governing a mixed Lydian, Pisidian, and Lydian-inflected population. Coins struck under Trajan Decius for this mint reflect a city still asserting provincial civic identity at a moment when the emperor was almost entirely preoccupied with Gothic incursions across the Danube. Decius died at the Battle of Abritus in 251, making his entire reign — and everything struck under it — a product of roughly two years of near-continuous military emergency.