Æ40 - Septimius Severus ΕΠΙ ΑΡΧΙΠΡΥΤΑΝΕΟϹ ΑΥΡ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ, ΜΕΙΛΗϹΙΩΝ

Miletus had been minting civic bronze under Roman oversight for generations by the time Severus took power, but the magistrate named in this legend — Aurelius Demetrios, serving as archprytanis — anchors the issue to a specific local administrative moment. The archprytanis was the presiding officer of the civic council's executive committee, an office of genuine municipal prestige in the Ionian cities, and naming him on the coin was a deliberate assertion of continued civic identity within the imperial framework.

Miletus by this period was well past its classical peak but remained the dominant city of its conventus district for Roman judicial administration.