Æ35 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ (Δ?) ΔΙΟϹΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ ΓΡΑΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ

Dioskourides Gratos served as the civic magistrate (grammateus or strategos) whose name this issue commemorates — a local official whose tenure fell within the early years of Antoninus Pius's reign, when the emperor's policy of devolving honorific authority to provincial elites encouraged exactly this kind of civic coinage. Magnesia ad Maeandrum sat on the lower Maeander valley and maintained a mint tradition reaching back centuries, but issues tied to named magistrates allow scholars to build a partial prosopography of the city's governing class where documentary papyri and inscriptions fall silent.