★ The magistrate Hermias paying for a coin emission ★

AEOLIS. Cyme. Pseudo-autonomous issue . Assarion (Bronze, 18 mm, 3.19 g, 6 h), Hermias, magistrate, time of Valerian and Gallienus, 253-260. KYMH Turreted and draped bust of the city-goddess to right. Rev. ЄPMЄIAC KYMAIOI/C Isis standing front, head to left, holding sistrum in her right hand and situla with her left. BMC -. SNG Copenhagen 133 ( same dies ). SNG Leypold -. SNG München -. SNG von Aulock -. Very rare. Slightly porous , otherwise, very fine.

The nominative in the name of the magistrate and the dative in the ethnic indicates that this issue was paid for by Hermias as a form of euergetism to his polis.