Æ30 - Elagabalus ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΑΤΤΙΝΑ ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩϹ ΑΡΧ Α ΤΟ Β ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ

Saitta was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Elagabalus is notable primarily for the prominence given to local magistrates in the legends — the archiereus named here held both religious and civic authority, and the office rotation implied by the "first term, second occasion" formula suggests an unusually well-documented administrative sequence for a city of this rank. The Conventus of Sardis administered a vast swath of western Anatolia, and smaller cities within it often competed through their coinage for visibility and prestige against neighbors with far greater resources.