Æ27 - Philip I ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ Α (Χ) ΤΟ Β ΚΙΔΥΗϹϹΕΩΝ

Cidyessus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Philip I was authorized under the local magistrate Aurelius Marcus — the ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ formula identifying him as the official responsible for the issue. The designation ΤΟ Β indicates a second term, a detail that occasionally helps sequence die studies within a single reign. Philip's five-year rule produced a surge in provincial bronze activity across the Conventus of Synnada, partly because his accession followed the murder of Gordian III in circumstances that required rapid legitimization across the eastern provinces.