Æ27 - Philip I ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΦΡΥΓ

Metropolis in Phrygia was a minor civic center whose coin output was modest and geographically constrained in circulation — most surviving examples turn up in regional hoards from the Maeander valley rather than through long-distance trade. Philip I's brief reign generated a burst of provincial bronze issues across Asia Minor, partly because his elevation coincided with renewed civic competition for imperial favor following the murder of Gordian III on the Euphrates frontier.

The ethnic ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΦΡΥΓ distinguishes this issue from the Lydian Metropolis, a disambiguation that matters when attributing unpublished or worn specimens.