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Ancyra in Phrygia — not to be confused with the Galatian capital of the same name — struck civic bronzes under local magistrates whose names appear in the coin legends as a mark of municipal pride and administrative accountability. The archon Modestus named here held office during Severus's reign, one of dozens of provincial officials who leveraged imperial coinage as a platform for local political visibility.

The Conventus of Sardis exercised jurisdiction over the region's civic minting, meaning these bronzes circulated as a genuinely local currency within a framework sanctioned by Roman provincial administration rather than by direct imperial order.