Diassarion - Nero ΑΝΤΩ ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ ΖΗΝΩΝ ΥΙΟΣ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΖΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΟΜΗΡΟΣ

Laodicea ad Lycum struck this issue under the magistracy of Zenon son of Zenon, a local official whose family name appears on several Laodicean bronzes from the Neronian period — a sign of a politically connected dynasty cycling through civic magistracies. The reverse type invoking Homer reflects Laodicea's participation in the competitive inter-city claim to Homer's birthplace, a dispute that Smyrna effectively won in the broader ancient imagination but which Laodicea and others refused to concede quietly.

The dual city legend naming both Laodicea and Smyrna signals a formal civic alliance (homonoia) rather than submission — these joint issues were assertions of parity.