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Æ21 - Philip I ΑΡΧ ϹΕΥΗΡΟ ΑΔΡΙ
| Issuer | Hadrianopolis (Philomelium) (Conventus of Philomelium) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | A bull stands in profile to the left, rendered in the compact, somewhat schematic style typical of Phrygian provincial bronze coinage. The animal is depicted with its head lowered, four legs clearly articulated, and a short tail visible to the rear. The Greek legend surrounds the type, distributed across the upper and lower fields of the flan, attributing the issue to the local archon Severus of the Hadrianopolitans. The overall fabric is irregular, consistent with hand-struck provincial production of the mid-third century AD. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hadrianopolis in Phrygia — not to be confused with the better-known Thracian city — was a minor settlement that owed its very name to the emperor Hadrian's aggressive policy of urban foundation across Asia Minor in the early second century. By Philip I's reign a century later, such Phrygian civic mints were operating on borrowed time; the monetary chaos of the mid-third century and successive military crises would effectively kill off most provincial bronze coinage within a generation. The archon name ϹΕΥΗΡΟ ΑΔΡΙ preserved in the legend is the primary dating anchor for this issue.