Æ36 - Macrinus ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ, ΒΩΤΑ (on pediment)

Macrinus ruled for just fourteen months before being defeated by the forces of Elagabalus at the Battle of Antioch in June 218 — making coins struck in his name at any eastern mint among the shorter-lived imperial provincial issues. Ephesus, as the dominant city of the Asian province, asserted its primacy through the title ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ, a claim that was fiercely contested by Smyrna and Pergamon and occasionally arbitrated by Rome itself.

The ΒΩΤΑ inscription on the pediment denotes the magistrate responsible for the issue, a bouleutes whose abbreviated name appears across only a handful of known dies from this reign.