Æ32 - Trajan ΜΑΙΑΝΔΡΟϹ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ

Antioch on the Maeander was a small Carian city whose civic coinage under Trajan reflects the broader reorganization of the conventus system in Asia Minor during the early second century. The river god Maeander — namesake of the famously serpentine river — held particular civic importance here, distinguishing this Antioch from its far more prominent Syrian namesake in a way that local magistrates clearly felt worth advertising on bronze.