Æ35 - Philip I ΕΠ Ϲ Μ Α ΕΚΑΤΑΙΟΥ Β ΕΡΥΘΡΑΙΩΝ

Erythrae, a coastal city on the western tip of the Çeşme peninsula, held the Sibylline oracle as its chief civic pride — the Erythraean Sibyl was among the most cited in antiquity, and the city leveraged that religious prestige aggressively on its bronze coinage under the Roman provincial system. Philip I's reign saw a brief but intense surge in provincial bronze production across the Conventus of Smyrna, partly to fund civic construction and local cult activity during a period when central imperial silver was being debased at an accelerating rate. The magistrate name Hekataios recorded here places this issue within a dateable sequence of Erythraean civic bronzes.