Æ31 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ ΔΑΜΑ ϹΤ (ΑΤΗΓΩΝ) ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ

Hypaepa was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Caracalla — and the broader Severan period — was administered through the conventus of Ephesus, the Roman judicial district that handled provincial affairs across a wide swath of western Asia Minor. The magistrate named in this issue's legend, Aurelius Loukios Damas, is one of the few local stratēgoi from Hypaepa whose name survives at all, preserved only through bronze civic coinage of exactly this type. The city's output was modest; Hypaepa never punched above its weight in the provincial minting hierarchy.