Æ33 - Philip I ΕΠΙ Γ Ι ΠΕΡΠΕΡΟΥ ΡΟΥΦ ΑΡΧ Β ΓΕΡΜΗΝΩΝ

Germe was a minor Mysian city whose civic bronze coinage under Philip I belongs to a concentrated burst of provincial output tied to his reign — Philip being the first emperor to make a point of cultivating the eastern provinces through monumental gestures, most visibly the celebration of Rome's millennial games in 248 AD. The magistrate named in the legend, likely a grammateus or archon serving a second term (the ΑΡΧ Β suggesting a second archonship), is otherwise unattested in the epigraphic record.