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Æ23 - Philip I ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Sardes (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VIII#20244 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus Lydios standing left in the central field, his weight resting on his right leg, holding an eagle perched on his outstretched right hand and a long sceptre in his left. The deity is rendered in the traditional Lydian iconographic type associated with the great sanctuary at Sardis. A Greek legend encircles the type, proclaiming the city's twice-neocorate status, a mark of high civic and religious prestige within the Roman provincial system. The composition is enclosed within a dotted border, consistent with Sardian civic bronze coinage of the Severan and post-Severan periods. |
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Sardis held the title of neokoros — official keeper of an imperial cult temple — twice by Philip's reign, which is precisely what the ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ legend advertises. The second neokorate was granted under Caracalla, and cities competed fiercely for these honors, which carried real economic weight in the form of festivals, pilgrimages, and inter-city prestige disputes adjudicated by Rome.
Philip I came to power after engineering, or at minimum facilitating, the murder of Gordian III on the Euphrates frontier in 244.