Æ33 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟϹ ΕϹΤΙΑΙΟΥ ΕΦΕϹΟϹ ΚΥΖΙΚΟϹ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ

This bronze was struck to commemorate a formal homonoia — a declared alliance of concord — between Ephesus and Cyzicus, two of the wealthiest and most politically competitive cities in the Roman province of Asia. Such agreements were brokered carefully, often requiring imperial approval, and the naming of the local archon Hestiaeus in the inscription pins this to a specific magistracy within the early years of Antoninus Pius's reign. The rivalry between Asian cities for honorific titles like neokoros made these concord issues both diplomatically pointed and chronologically precise.