Æ27 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠ) ΓΡ ΑΥΡ ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ (ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΩ, sic) ΝΥϹΑΕΩΝ

Nysa ad Maeandrum was a prosperous Lydian city whose civic pride in self-governance showed up directly on its coinage — the magistrate name in the legend here, Aurelius Diodotos, reflects the Roman citizenship newly widespread after the Antonine period, a local official advertising both his Greek roots and his imperial enfranchisement in a single abbreviated line. The misspelling ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΩ for ΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥ is not a restrike or die repair; it left the mint exactly as cut, the engraver having simply closed the omega where an upsilon was intended.