Æ24 - Philip I ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΡΧ ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ

Cotiaeum, modern Kütahya in western Turkey, was a mid-tier Phrygian city whose civic bronze output under Philip I is closely tied to the magistracy of Aurelius Menandros — named explicitly in the obverse legend as archon. The city minted under its own civic authority during the provincial coinage period, when Rome still permitted Greek-speaking eastern cities to produce local bronze for small-denomination exchange, a practice Philip I allowed to continue until the system collapsed entirely under his successors.