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Æ22 - Philip I ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Tripolis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VIII#5905 |
| Obverse description | Turreted and draped bust of Boule facing right, wearing a mural crown with multiple turrets rendered in relief. The drapery falls over the shoulder in the customary civic personification style of Asia Minor provincial coinage. The Greek legend ΒΟΥΛΗ appears in the field to the left of the bust, identifying the figure as the personification of the city council. The portrait is rendered in a provincial style characteristic of the Lydian conventus under the reign of Philip I. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΒΟΥΛΗ (Translation: Council) |
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Tripolis on the Maeander — not to be confused with the better-known Libyan or Phoenician cities of the same name — was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Philip I reflects the brief window between his accession after Gordian III's death in Mesopotamia and the Dacian wars that consumed his reign. Provincial bronze of this city is sparsely documented, and the conventus of Sardis administered a wide enough territory that many of its constituent cities produced only thin series under any given emperor.
Philip's reign ended at the Battle of Verona in 249, when Decius's forces defeated him — making the entire civic output from Tripolis under his name a five-year window at most.