Apatourios was a magistrate whose name appears on a small cluster of bronze issues from Smyrna dating to the mid-first century BC — a period when the city, nominally free under Roman oversight following the reorganization of Asia Minor, was managing its own civic coinage with considerable autonomy. The magistrate-named series to which this piece belongs reflects the Greek city's retention of local administrative identity even as Rome tightened its grip on provincial finances after the Mithridatic Wars.
Milne's corpus of Smyrnaean bronzes remains the foundational reference for this series, and #393 is among the smaller module issues he catalogued from this magistracy.
Apatourios was a magistrate whose name appears on a small cluster of bronze issues from Smyrna dating to the mid-first century BC — a period when the city, nominally free under Roman oversight following the reorganization of Asia Minor, was managing its own civic coinage with considerable autonomy. The magistrate-named series to which this piece belongs reflects the Greek city's retention of local administrative identity even as Rome tightened its grip on provincial finances after the Mithridatic Wars.
Milne's corpus of Smyrnaean bronzes remains the foundational reference for this series, and #393 is among the smaller module issues he catalogued from this magistracy.