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Æ31 - Philip I ΕΠΙ ΦΛ ΑΙ ΠΡΕΙϹΚΟΥ ΑΡ (Ι) ΠΡΩ ΠΟ (sic) Β ΔΑΛΔΙΑΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Daldis (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΦΛ ΑΙ ΠΡΕΙϹΚΟΥ ΑΡΧ(Ι) ΠΡΩ ΠΟ (sic) Β ΔΑΛΔΙΑΝΩΝ (Translation: under Flavius Aelius Priscus, first archon for the second time, of the Daldians) |
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Daldis was a minor Lydian city whose coins consistently punched above its civic weight by naming prominent local magistrates — here Flavius Aischrion Preiskos, whose titles mark him as archiereus (high priest of the imperial cult) and protos (first citizen). The garbled abbreviation in the magistrate's title, rendered as ΑΡ (Ι) ΠΡΩ ΠΟ rather than a clean ΑΡΧΙ ΠΡΩΤΟ, suggests a die-cutter working from a poorly transmitted text, a known problem with Daldianian bronzes of this period.
Philip I's reign saw a surge in provincial bronze production across the Sardis conventus, partly tied to preparations for the Secular Games of 248 AD.