Æ32 - Antoninus Pius ΠΕΛΤΗΝΩΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ

Peltae was a minor Macedonian colony in Phrygia — its coins consistently assert that Macedonian identity through the ethnic ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ, a civic boast that carried real political weight under the Antonines, when Greek cities competed aggressively for honorific statuses and colonial claims to curry imperial favor. The town sat within the conventus of Apamea, one of the judicial circuits through which Roman governors administered Asia, and civic bronze from these smaller Phrygian centers was produced entirely for local exchange, never circulating far beyond the immediate territory.

The reference IV.2#2978 places this in the Burnett-Amandry-Ripollès corpus. Peltae's output under Antoninus Pius is sparse.