Æ35 - Philip I ΕΠΙ ΑΥΡ ϹΕΠ ΙΟΛΛΑ ΑΡ Α ΥΙ ΑϹ , ϹΑΙΤΤΗΝΩΝ

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.