Hemiassarion - ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ

Antioch on the Maeander was a small Carian city whose civic coinage under the Antonine period reflects a community asserting local identity within a Roman provincial framework. The conventus of Alabanda grouped several such minor cities for judicial and administrative purposes, and the right to strike bronze for local exchange was one of the few visible expressions of civic autonomy that Rome left intact.

The attribution to the joint reigns spanning Trajan and Hadrian rests largely on typological comparison rather than explicit dating evidence — a common difficulty with Carian civic bronzes of this denomination.