Æ35 - Elagabalus ΚΙΔΡΑΜΗΝΩΝ

Cidrama was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage output was modest even by the standards of small Asian conventus towns. Under Elagabalus, many such communities seized on the new emperor's reign as an occasion to issue bronze — partly civic pride, partly a practical need for local small-denomination exchange that imperial mints had little interest in supplying. The conventus of Alabanda administered a geographically scattered collection of communities, and Cidrama sits near the lower end of that group in terms of documented numismatic output.

The VI#5397 reference places this among a thinly documented series; surviving specimens are rare enough that die studies for Cidraman issues of this reign remain incomplete.