Æ21 - Philip I ΥΡΚΑΝΩΝ

Hyrcanis was a minor Lydian city whose coins are rarely encountered in any volume — the community sat in the Hyrcanis valley inland from Smyrna and struck only sporadically under Roman imperial oversight. Issues under Philip I correspond to his brief reign before his death at Verona in 249, almost certainly killed by his own troops during Decius's usurpation. The conventus of Smyrna administered civic coinage rights across dozens of such small Lydian centers, and the irregular output from Hyrcanis suggests limited civic funds rather than any minting disruption.