Æ28 - Trajan ΕΠΙ (ΚΛ) ΡΟΥΦΟΥ ΜΑΙΟΝΩΝ

Maeonia was a minor inland city of Lydia whose civic coinage under Trajan almost always names the presiding Roman magistrate — here Claudius Rufus, whose tenure as conventus administrator can be partially reconstructed from surviving bronze issues across several Lydian mints. The formula ΕΠΙ (ΚΛ) ΡΟΥΦΟΥ places this squarely within the tradition of provincials advertising Roman oversight as a mark of legitimacy rather than reluctance.

RPC III 2422B is a scarce variant within the Maeonitan Trajanic sequence, distinct from the more frequently encountered 2422A by die alignment or reverse type specifics documented in the RPC online corpus.