Æ34 - Philip I ΕΠ Ϲ ΑΥΡ ΟΝΗϹΙΜΟΥ Τ Ε, ΤΗΜΝΕΙΤΩΝ (retrograde)

Temnus was a minor Aeolian city whose civic coinage under Philip I represents one of the more obscure corners of the Asian provincial series. The magistrate named in the legend — Aurelius Onesimos — held a role roughly equivalent to a civic magistrate responsible for authorizing the bronze issue, a common administrative arrangement in the Conventus of Smyrna during the mid-third century.

The retrograde ethnic ΤΗΜΝΕΙΤΩΝ is a curiosity worth noting. Engraving errors of this kind occasionally point to a die-cutter working from a wax impression rather than correcting for the reversal required in die work.