Æ26 - Philip I ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΕΡΩΤΟϹ ΖΩΤΙΚ ΝΕ ΑΡΧ Α ΑΠΠΙΑΝΩΝ?

Appia was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Philip I reflects the administrative geography of the Conventus of Synnada — a Roman judicial circuit that grouped smaller settlements for provincial governance. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, Aurelius Anterос Zotikos, is unusually complete for a city of Appia's standing, suggesting he held the archonship during a period of local civic ambition tied to Philip's broader promotion of provincial coinage.

Philip I encouraged municipally struck bronze across Asia Minor partly to supplement military spending following his expensive peace settlement with Shapur I on the eastern frontier in 244 AD.