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Æ18 - Caligula ΦΙΛΟΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΩΝ ΑΝΤΙΟΧΟϹ ΑΠΟΛΛΟΔΟΤΟΥ
| Issuer | Philadelphia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 37-41 |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Philadelphia (Lydia) |
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Philadelphia in Lydia was an unusually loyal city — founded by Attalid kings and named for brotherly devotion — and its civic coinage under Caligula leans hard into that tradition of deference. The magistrate name Antiochos son of Apollodotos appears on a small cluster of issues from this reign, suggesting a brief but active tenure during the chaotic final years before Caligula's assassination in January 41.
The city's epithet ΦΙΛΟΚΑΙϹΑΡ, "Caesar-loving," was not merely honorific flattery but a formal civic title Philadelphia had cultivated for generations of Roman emperors.