Æ34 - Macrinus ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙϹΙΕΩΝ

Macrinus ruled for just over a year — from April 218, when the legions of Syria Phoenice proclaimed the fourteen-year-old Elagabalus emperor, his reign effectively ended. Aphrodisias, a city whose civic pride was bound up in its close relationship with Rome stretching back to Julius Caesar, continued striking under Macrinus during that narrow window. The city held the rare distinction of being a free city exempt from provincial taxation, a status jealously maintained through a sequence of imperial friendships.

The Conventus of Alabanda grouped Aphrodisias administratively for assizes, though the city's autonomy meant local bronze production operated with considerable independence from provincial oversight.