Æ32 - Claudius ΑΛΑΒΑΝΔΕΩΝ

Alabanda had been a free city under Roman administration since the Republican period, and its civic coinage under Claudius reflects the municipality's continued autonomy to issue bronze for local exchange. The city — situated in the Marsyas valley inland from the Aegean coast — was prosperous enough to maintain its own mint through the Julio-Claudian period, though output was modest and issues from individual reigns are correspondingly scarce.

The ethnic legend ΑΛΑΒΑΝΔΕΩΝ marks this firmly as a civic rather than a provincial issue, struck on the city's own authority rather than that of the koinon.