Æ29 - Philip I ΕΠΙ ΙΟΥΛ ΚΟΔΡΑΤΟΥ ΥΙΟΥ ΙΠΠ ΑΡΧ Α ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ

Philip I's reign saw a marked surge in civic bronze production across Phrygia, largely because his accession in 244 AD — following the murder of Gordian III on campaign against Persia — required rapid cultivation of provincial loyalty. Cotiaeum, a mid-tier Phrygian city within the Synnada conventus, participated actively in this dynamic. The magistrate named in this coin's legend, Julius Quadratus, held the hipparchos office, a cavalry-linked civic title that by the third century had become largely honorific but still carried enough prestige to anchor a coin issue.