Æ30 - Marcus Aurelius ΑΠοΛΛΩΝΙοϹ Β ΖΩϹΙΜοΥ ΔΙοΚΡΑΤοΥϹ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ

Apollonios, son of Zosimos and grandson of Diokrates, funded this issue as a civic benefaction — the dedicatory inscription naming all three generations reflects a Phrygian elite custom of anchoring public generosity to family lineage, transforming a coin issue into a genealogical monument. Colossae, by the time of Marcus Aurelius, was a city in slow decline relative to its neighbor Laodicea, yet local magistrates continued commissioning bronze issues to assert civic identity within the Cibyran conventus.