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Æ32 - Philip I ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΖΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ
| Issuer | Laodicea ad Lycum (Conventus of Cibyra) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip II as Caesar facing right, portrayed in three-quarter view from the front, rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Phrygian civic coinage. The portrait shows the youthful features of the junior emperor, with paludamentum visible at the shoulder. The encircling Greek legend occupies the field around the bust, partially obscured by heavy patination and surface wear consistent with extended circulation. |
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| Obverse lettering | Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ |
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The ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ ("homonoia") coinage between Laodicea ad Lycum and Smyrna documents a formal alliance between two cities that were geographically remote from one another — Laodicea in the Lycus valley of Phrygia, Smyrna on the Aegean coast — and whose pairing was almost certainly brokered through the provincial convention system rather than any natural commercial bond. These alliance coins functioned as diplomatic statements, often minted to coincide with festivals, embassies, or the arrival of a new emperor requiring coordinated civic loyalty displays. Philip I's accession in 244 provided exactly that occasion.
Laodicea was one of the wealthier cities of the Cibyra conventus and a prolific bronze issuer under the Severans and their successors, but homonoia types with Smyrna are among its rarer civic pairings.