Æ36 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΤΙΒ ΚΛ ΜΥΡΩΝΟϹ ΤΟ Β, ΚΟΛΟΦΩΝΙΩΝ

Colophon's civic bronze issues under Caracalla belong to a municipally funded tradition where local magistrates — here Tiberius Claudius Myron, serving his second term (ΤΟ Β) — bore personal financial responsibility for the striking costs. This practice of named magistrate coinages was standard across the Ionian conventus, but Myron's second tenure is specifically documented, making the term designation more than honorific.

Colophon itself had been in decline since Lysimachus forcibly resettled much of its population to Ephesus around 294 BC. By the Severan period it was a shadow of the city that once claimed Homer.