Æ27 - Trajan ΕΠΙ ΟΥΛ ΓΛΑΥΚΟΥ ϹΤ (ΑΤΗ) ΚΥΖΙ (ΗΝ (Ω)

Kyzikos sat at the intersection of Roman provincial administration and deep Hellenistic civic tradition — the city had been a free ally of Rome since the Mithridatic Wars, a status it leveraged into unusual autonomy over its local bronze coinage. The magistrate name partially preserved in this coin's legend, Ulpius Glaukos, is consistent with the Trajanic period practice of appointing Romanized Greek elites as strategoi responsible for authorizing municipal bronze issues.

The broken legend — ΑΤΗ and ΚΥΖΙΗΝΩsuggest a die showing wear or misalignment by the time this specimen was struck.