Æ29 - Philip I ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΙΩΝΙΑ

Metropolis in Ionia was a small city of modest political standing whose civic coinage under Philip I reflects the broader provincial boom in bronze issues that accompanied his reign. The city's claim to the title embedded in its ethnic — positioning itself among the metropoleis of Ionia — was an assertion of civic prestige more than administrative reality, a form of honorific self-promotion common among competing Ionian cities during the third century.

Philip's reign ended at the Battle of Verona in 249, cut short by Decius. Provincial bronzes from his rule stopped abruptly with it.