Æ31 - Commodus ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΜοϹΧΙΑΝοΥ ΦΙ

Thyatira, a Lydian city better known in this period for its textile guilds and purple-dye trade, was administratively bound to the Pergamene conventus — one of the judicial districts Rome used to govern Asia without stationing a permanent magistrate in every city. The strategos named in the legend, Moschianus, was a local magistrate whose tenure coincided with a politically turbulent stretch of Commodus's reign, when the emperor's increasingly erratic behavior was straining the machinery of provincial loyalty.

The ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ formula places civic responsibility for the issue squarely on Moschianus — a dating anchor that makes named-magistrate bronzes from Thyatira unusually useful for reconstructing local administrative sequences.