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Æ35 - Philip I ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ϹΕΠ ΙΟΛΛΑ ΑΡ Α ΥΙ ΑϹ , ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ
| Issuer | Saitta (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Philip I (the Arab) facing right, rendered in three-quarter view from the front, displaying the characteristic short beard and strong features of the emperor. The cuirass shows detailed engraving of military decoration, with visible paludamentum (military cloak) fastened at the shoulder. A circular Greek legend surrounds the imperial effigy, running along the outer border of the flan. The portrait style is consistent with provincial Lydian workshop production of the mid-third century AD. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑΥΓ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Julius Philippus Augustus) |
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Saitta was a minor Lydian city in the Hermus valley whose civic coinage under Philip I reflects the broader pattern of Greek imperial bronze production that effectively ended with his reign — the Antonine and Severan-era flowering of provincial civic issues had already peaked, and by the 250s the Roman monetary crisis was strangling local minting authority across Asia Minor. The magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend, Aurelius Septimius Iolla, is Romanized to a degree typical of Lydian civic officials by the mid-third century, suggesting a local family that had held citizenship for at least a generation.