Æ35 - Antoninus Pius Π Κ ΑΤΤΑΛΟϹ ΕΠΙΝΙΚΙΟΝ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ

The inscription ΑΤΤΑΛΟϹ ΕΠΙΝΙΚΙΟΝ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ identifies this piece as a dedicatory civic issue — Attalos funded the games whose celebration this coin commemorates. Such magistrate-funded munificence was a well-established mechanism in the cities of Phrygia, where local elites competed for civic prestige through liturgies including festival sponsorship. The Conventus of Cibyra was one of the four judicial districts into which Rome divided Asia, and Laodicea ad Lycum served as its assizes center, a status that brought both administrative traffic and the kind of wealthy civic benefactors who bankrolled exactly this sort of issue.