Tralles, a prosperous city in the Maeander valley, held the right to strike civic bronze under Roman oversight through its local magistrates — the grammateus being one such figure, here recorded in the garbled form ΤΡΑΛΙ rather than the expected ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ. Whether this reflects a die-cutter's error, an abbreviation pushed too far, or damage to the working die is unresolved, but the anomaly is consistent across known specimens of this magistrate issue and not an individual striking accident.
Tralles, a prosperous city in the Maeander valley, held the right to strike civic bronze under Roman oversight through its local magistrates — the grammateus being one such figure, here recorded in the garbled form ΤΡΑΛΙ rather than the expected ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΩΝ. Whether this reflects a die-cutter's error, an abbreviation pushed too far, or damage to the working die is unresolved, but the anomaly is consistent across known specimens of this magistrate issue and not an individual striking accident.