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Æ35 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ΙΟΥΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝ ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΑΡΧ Α ΦΛ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ, ΑΔΕΛΦ , ΚΟΙΝΑ ΑϹΙΑϹ
| Issuer | Philadelphia (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Emperor Severus Alexander facing right, portrayed from behind with the cuirass visible in three-quarter rear view. The effigy displays the characteristic military and imperial attributes befitting a reigning emperor, with the laurel wreath rendered in fine relief. The obverse legend encircles the bust, identifying the emperor by his full titulature. |
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| Reverse description | Two agonistic prize crowns, each adorned with a palm branch, displayed upon a draped table; a prize purse is depicted between the two crowns. In the lower field, a vase (hydria) is flanked by two aspergilla (ritual sprinklers), alluding to the sacred and ceremonial character of the Koinon games. The reverse legend, distributed around and within the field, references the presiding first archon Julius Aristonicus Julian, the neocorate city of Philadelphia, and the Koinon of Asia, underscoring the coin's connection to the provincial imperial cult and agonistic festivals. |
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Philadelphia in Lydia was granted neokorate status — the right to maintain an imperial cult temple — and leveraged this honor aggressively in civic coinage. The magistrate name preserved in this legend, Julianus, anchors the issue within local administrative practice where stratēgoi or archons underwrote coin production as a form of civic euergetism. The ΚΟΙΝΑ ΑΣΙΑΣ formula indicates this was struck under the authority of the provincial koinon of Asia, meaning Philadelphia was asserting its standing not merely as a local polis but as a recognized node within the broader structure of Roman provincial administration in the Sardis conventus.