Æ30 - Trajan ΑΙΤΗϹΑΜΕΝΟΥ ΓΑ ΑϹΙΝ ΦΡ (Υ)ΓΙ ΑΛΙΗΝΩΝ

Alia was a minor Phrygian city in the conventus of Apamea whose civic coinage under Trajan survives in tiny numbers — the legend fragment ΑΙΤΗϹΑΜΕΝΟΥ suggests this issue was struck at the request of a local magistrate or civic body, a formulaic but historically meaningful detail that records active municipal self-governance under Roman provincial administration. Phrygia's cities competed fiercely for the right to strike bronze, and securing imperial permission was itself a civic achievement worth commemorating in the die.