Æ35 - Severus Alexander ΕΠΙ ΙΟΥΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΟΝ ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΥ ΑΡΧ Α ΦΛ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ, ΑΔΕΛΦ , ΚΟΙΝΑ ΑϹΙΑϹ

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.