Æ22 - Philip I ΤΡΙΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ

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.