Æ27 - Philip I ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΦΡΥΓ

Philip I's reign coincided with Rome's millennial celebrations of 248 AD, and provincial mints across Asia Minor issued heavily during this period — partly in genuine civic enthusiasm, partly because the imperial administration actively encouraged local bronze production to relieve pressure on the central coinage. Metropolis in Phrygia was a minor city, and its output under Philip is sparse enough that individual dies are traceable across a small surviving corpus.

The ethnic legend ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΦΡΥΓ distinguishes this issue from the better-documented Metropolis in Ionia, a confusion that has misattributed specimens in older collections.