Æ25 - Philip I ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, ΑΚΤΙΑ

Hierapolis in Phrygia — not to be confused with its more famous Syrian namesake — was a minor but commercially active city whose coin issues under Philip I cluster tightly around the Aktia festival cycle. The ΑΚΤΙΑ legend references games held in honor of Augustus's victory at Actium, a celebration that many Asian cities perpetuated for centuries as a means of demonstrating loyalty to Rome and maintaining festival prestige within their conventus.

The Cibyra conventus was among the smaller administrative groupings in Asia Minor, and civic bronze from its member cities rarely achieved wide distribution beyond local exchange.