Æ25 - Philip I ΕΠ ΦΛ ΑΙ ΠΡΕΙϹΚΟΥ ΔΑΛΔΙΑΝΩΝ

Daldis was a small Lydian city whose civic coinage under Philip I leaned heavily on the authority of its Roman magistrates — the ΕΠ formula names the local strategos or archon responsible for the issue, here one Flavius Aischrion Preiskos, whose name appears across a small cluster of bronze issues from this reign. Philip's provincial bronzes from the Sardis conventus are modestly common as a class, but individual magistrate-linked issues like this one often survive in very limited numbers, the dies having served short runs before being retired or destroyed.