Æ29 - Trajan Decius ΕΠΙ ΠΟ ΑΙΛ ΑΤΤΙΚΟΥ ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ

Colophon's civic bronze issues under Trajan Decius were produced during a period when the city had long outlived its classical prominence — the original settlement had been effectively abandoned after Lysimachus forcibly relocated its population to his newly founded Ephesus around 294 BC. What survived into the imperial period was a diminished remnant community, yet one still asserting civic identity through the magistrate named in this legend, Aelius Atticus, whose office as local magistrate authorized the strike.