Æ28 - Trajan ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕ ΔΑΚΙΚΟϹ

Tripolis on the Maeander — not to be confused with the more prominent Tripolis in Lydia proper — was a minor polis whose civic coinage under the Conventus of Sardis reflects Roman administrative consolidation of the Maeander valley. The epithet ΔΑΚΙΚΟϹ dates this issue no earlier than 102 AD, when Trajan formally assumed that title following his first Dacian campaign. Whether the city was celebrating the victory on its own initiative or responding to imperial expectation is unresolved, but provincials throughout Asia Minor adopted the title rapidly in those years.