Æ30 - Antoninus Pius ΜΗΝοΦΑΝΤοϹ ΙΕΡΕΥϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ ΤΑΒΑΛΕΩΝ

Tabala was a minor Lydian city in the Sardis conventus whose civic coinage is poorly represented in major collections — this priestly dedication issue, naming Menophantos as the sponsoring hiereus, falls into a category where the magistrate himself funded the striking as an act of public religious patronage. Such euergetistic arrangements were common in the Greek East under the Antonines, but surviving bronzes from Tabala are scarce enough that individual magistrate series rarely appear in more than a handful of examples across institutional holdings.