Æ34 - Maximinus ΕΠ ϹΤΡ Μ ΑΥΡ ΠΟΠΛΙΟΥ ΠΡΟΚΛΙΑΝΟΥ, ΠΡΩΤΑ ΚΟΙΝΑ ΑСΙΑС ΕΝ СΜΥΡΝΗ

Proklianos served as asiarch during the reign of Maximinus Thrax, a soldier-emperor who never visited the eastern provinces and whose violent accession — dispatching Alexander Severus in a military coup — left provincial elites scrambling to demonstrate loyalty through exactly this kind of conspicuous honorific coinage. The ΠΡΩΤΑ ΚΟΙΝΑ ΑΣΙΑΣ formula identifies this as struck for the games held at the primary assembly of the Asian koinon, one of the most prestigious civic occasions in the province.

Smyrna's rivalry with Ephesus and Pergamon over precedence within the koinon was centuries old by this point.