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Æ28 - Commodus ϹΤΡΑ Λ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΥ ΥΡΚΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Hyrcanis (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 180-182 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate bust of Commodus facing right, with short beard, draped in paludamentum and clad in cuirass, depicted from a three-quarter rear perspective. The imperial effigy is rendered in the standard provincial style of the Antonine period, with the legend disposed around the periphery of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΟΔοϹ |
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Hyrcanis was a small inland city in Lydia whose coins are rare enough that the civic series remains poorly catalogued. The magistrate name preserved in the legend — likely a local strategos — represents one of the few administrative records surviving from this community at all. Commodus's accession in 180 AD, following Marcus Aurelius's death on campaign, prompted a wave of new civic bronze issues across the Smyrna conventus as cities aligned themselves with the incoming emperor.