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| Issuer | Phocaea (Conventus of Smyrna) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VIII#20323 |
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| Mint | Phocaea (Ionia) |
| Mintage | ND (244-249) |
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Phocaea, the Ionian city credited with inventing coinage in the Western tradition, was still producing civic bronzes under Philip I as part of the conventus system that gave provincial cities limited autonomy to strike for local use. The magistrate name ΕΠ Ϲ ΚΛ ϹΚΡΕΙΒΩΝΙΑΝΟΥ — Gaius Claudius Scribonianus — served as the presiding official (ἐπί) whose name guaranteed the issue, a practice that makes die-linked series under specific magistrates traceable across Philip's five-year reign.