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| Issuer | Cotiaeum (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VIII#20658 |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΙΟΥΛ ΚΟΔΡΑΤΟΥ ΥΙΟΥ ΙΠΠΙ ΑΡΧ ΚΟΤΙΑΕΩΝ (Translation: under Julius Quadratus II, of equestrian rank, archon of the Cotiaeans) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Philip I's reign coincided with a surge in civic bronze production across Phrygia, as cities competed to display loyalty to the new emperor through local coinage bearing their magistrates' names. The magistrate named here — Julius Quadratus, son of Hippias — follows a pattern common to Cotiaeum, where archonships often passed within elite families across generations. Quadratus's patronymic suggests his father may have held civic office before him, a detail occasionally traceable through other surviving bronzes from the conventus.
Cotiaeum sat on a major road junction in Phrygia Salutaris, which sustained its mint activity well into the third century.