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| Issuer | Philomelion |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΦΙΛΟΜΗ / ΣΚΥΘΙ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Philomelion was a Phrygian city of genuine commercial importance — positioned on the main road between Apameia and Iconium — yet it issued civic bronze coinage only during a relatively narrow window in the second and first centuries BC, almost certainly in response to the economic disruption following Rome's reorganization of Asia Minor after Apameia in 188 BC. The city passed through Seleucid and then Pergamene influence before coming under direct Roman administration, and its autonomous coinage fits awkwardly but plausibly into the period of Pergamene oversight before 133 BC.