Æ28 - Commodus ϹΤΡΑ Λ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΥ ΥΡΚΑΝΩΝ

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.