Diassarion - Faustina the Elder ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ

Faustina the Elder died in 140 or 141 AD, and Antoninus Pius responded by securing her deification — a move that generated an enormous provincial coinage across Asia Minor in her honor. Sardis, as the principal city of its conventus and a site of deep Lydian civic pride, was among the more prolific issuers. This diassarion belongs to that posthumous or near-posthumous burst of activity, struck while the city was simultaneously navigating its relationship with the new Antonine dynasty.

BMC RE #140 places this within a well-documented Sardian sequence, though the conventus issues of this reign remain less systematically studied than the Ephesian material.