Æ31 - Philip I ΕΠ Μ ΑΥΡ ΔΡΑΥΚΟΥ Α ΑΡΧ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩΝ

Hadriani ad Olympum, a city in Mysia (modern Bursa province, Turkey), was among the hundreds of civic mints operating under Roman imperial authority during the third century. The magistrate name preserved in this coin's legend — Μ ΑΥΡ ΔΡΑΥΚΟΣ, likely a Romanized local notable — is rare enough in the epigraphic record that individual die studies have used coins like this one to reconstruct his tenure. Philip I's reign was short and ended badly, but the provincial bronze output under him was prolific; Mysian civic coinage essentially ceased within a generation as the Roman monetary crisis made local bronze production economically unviable.