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Æ29 - Philip I ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Antioch ad Maeandrum (Conventus of Alabanda) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip II Caesar facing right, portrayed from the rear in three-quarter view, with paludamentum over the cuirass. The circumferential Greek legend reads Μ ΙΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ, distributed around the periphery of the field. The portrait is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Carian civic bronze coinage of the mid-third century AD. |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΙΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ |
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Philip I's five-year reign saw provincial bronze production across Asia Minor surge as the emperor worked to maintain loyalty in the eastern cities following his controversial peace with Shapur I — a treaty that many Romans considered outright capitulation. Antioch ad Maeandrum, a small Carian city on the Maeander river, was among the mints that struck in his name, though its output was modest and surviving specimens are genuinely scarce.
The city fell within the conventus of Alabanda, one of the judicial districts Rome used to administer western Asia Minor.