Æ28 - Nero Ι ΤΩΝ ΤΩ ϹΑΡ

Hierapolis in Cappadocia — distinct from the better-known Phrygian city of the same name — issued provincially under Nero during a period when the eastern mints were navigating careful displays of loyalty to a princeps whose relationship with the Senate was deteriorating sharply. The legend fragment ΤΩΝ ΤΩ ϹΑΡ is a compressed rendering of a dedicatory or civic formula acknowledging Caesar, a formulaic habit of Cappadocian civic bronze that helps distinguish local production from imperially directed coinage.