Æ29 - Trajan Decius ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΦΛ ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΟΥϹ ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ

Colophon, one of the seven cities claiming to be Homer's birthplace, was a minor polis by the imperial period — its civic coinage under Trajan Decius reflects the brief administrative window of his reign, cut short at the Battle of Abrittus in 251 AD when he became the first reigning Roman emperor killed in battle against a foreign enemy. The strategos named in the obverse legend, Flavius Agathokles, served as the local magistrate responsible for authorizing this issue, his name preserved here as the sole record of his office.