Æ36 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ Π ΚΑΙΚΙ ΚΛΕΩΝοϹ ΑΡΧ Α ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦΕΩΝ (Φs shaped as ·|·, Ωs as closed ∩)

Philadelphia in Lydia — modern Alaşehir — was one of the last cities in Asia Minor to hold out against Vespasian during the upheavals of 69 AD, and its fierce civic loyalty to Rome paid dividends in the form of generous minting privileges under successive emperors. The magistrate named in this legend, P. Kaikios Kleon, held the first archonship, the senior civic magistracy whose name on a coin guaranteed it had passed through the highest level of municipal authority.

The idiosyncratic letterforms — the phi rendered as a dotted vertical and the omega closed into a flat arch — are not damage or degradation but deliberate local workshop practice, documented across multiple Philadelphia issues of this period and useful for die-linking studies.