Æ18 - Philip I ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

Tripolis ad Maeandrum — not to be confused with the more prominent Tripolis in Phoenicia — was a modest Lydian city whose civic coinage under Philip I reflects the brief window of provincial bronze production that effectively ended with the currency reforms of the later third century. The city sat near the confluence of the Maeander and Lycus rivers, a geography that made it commercially viable but never politically significant enough to attract sustained imperial attention.

The Conventus of Sardis administered a sprawling judicial district; Tripolis was among its smaller constituent cities, and its surviving coin types from this reign are genuinely scarce.