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Trapezopolis was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the patronage of local magistrates willing to finance issues from their own resources — the magistrate named in this legend, Titus Claudius Adrastos, identifies himself with the rare title indicating he held the office through hereditary succession from his father, an unusual declaration of dynastic civic authority that appears on only a handful of known provincial bronzes from the region.