Æ31 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ΕΡΜΟΛΑΟΥ Τ (?) ΘΕΟΦΙΛΟΥ ϹΤΡ ΥΠΑΙΠΗΝΩΝ

Hypaepa was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the goodwill of the Ephesian conventus — the regional assize court where Roman authority was concentrated. The magistrate name preserved in this issue, partially read as Hermolaus son (or associate) of Theophilos, is known from only a handful of dies, making the strategos sequence for Hypaepa under Commodus one of the least reconstructed in the conventus. The years 182–184 fall immediately after the conspiracy of Lucilla, Commodus's sister, whose failed assassination attempt triggered a prolonged purge that rippled through provincial administration.