Æ31 - Macrinus ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ

Macrinus never visited Asia Minor during his fourteen-month reign, yet the cities of the conventus scrambled to issue coins in his name — civic loyalty, or more accurately civic self-interest, demanded it. Ephesus held the title ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ, "first of Asia," a designation bitterly contested with Smyrna and Pergamon and defended through exactly this kind of high-profile imperial coinage.

The reign ended in June 218 when Elagabalus's forces defeated Macrinus at the Battle of Antioch. Issues struck in his name became liabilities almost immediately.