RPC VIII, 2010

 

Image of specimen #23

 

Coin type
Volume VIII
Number 2010
Province Lycia-Pamphylia
Region Pisidia
City Amblada
Reign Philip I
Person (obv.) Philip I (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Ἰούλιος Φίλιππος Σεβαστός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Ἰούλ(ιος) Φίλιππος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Julius Philippus Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΑΜΒΛΑΔΕΩΝ ΛΑΚΕΔΑΙΜΟΝΙΩΝ
Edition Ἀμβλαδέων Λακεδαιμονίων Ἀμβλαδέων Λακεδαιμονίων
Translation of the Lacedaemonian Ambladians
Reverse design Heracles standing right, right arm behind his back, holding lion skin, bow and club sitting on bucranium; at left, quiver with arrows
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 19.31 g
Axis 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11
Reference vA Pisidien I, 146–8 (Philip I) and 152–64 (Philip II)
Specimens 31 (8 in the core collections)
Note The identification of the coins listed under vA Pisidien I, 152–64 as Philip II Augustus is questionable, because, even if the general appearance is more juvenile, the portrait is bearded and, on some specimens, worry lines are discernible.

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: G1874,0715.338 BMC 2 = vA Pisidien I, 154
2 2     P: 20 SNG 1039 = Wa 3560 = vA Pisidien I, 148
3 3     P: 22 SNG 1042 = vA Pisidien I, 160
4 4     B: 18217105, Löbb. vA Pisidien I, 156
5 5     C SNG Lewis 1679 = vA Pisidien I, 162
6 6     Cop SNG 6 = vA Pisidien I, 147
7 7     Mu vA Pisidien I, 157
8 8     V: GR 43603 vA Pisidien I, 158
9 9     A SNG Soutzos 1617 = Svoronos JIAN 7 (1904) 388, 269 = vA Pisidien I, 64
10 10     Boston: 62.399 vA Pisidien I, 153
11 11     Kassel: Mü 1357
12 12     Kassel: Mü 693 Schenk-Behrens 72, 4 Dec. 1996, lot 530
13 13     V-Me General Lloyd agent de Mattei, Istanbul, P.Cl. Sibilian 1855, Mechitaristenkloster Wien (cast in Winterthur) = vA Pisidien I, 152
14 14     V-ON SNG Leypold 1968
15 15     Ars Antiqua London 1, 3 Nov. 2000, lot 374 = Hirsch 346, 13 Feb. 2019, lot 2857
16 16     Astarte Young Collectors WA 1, 11 Jan. 2024, lot 301
17 17     Cahn 60, 2 July 1928, lot 1614 = Schulmann NY, 6 June 1969 (Mabbott coll.), lot 1675 (under Alabanda) = vA Pisidien I, 155
18 18     Cancio coll. = vA Pisidien I, 146
19 19     CNG EA 137, 12 Apr. 2006, lot 88
20 20     CNG EA 426, 8 Aug. 2018, lot 327
21 21     CNG MBS 79, 17 Sept. 2008, lot 621
22 22     Heller coll. = vA Pisidien I, 159
23 23     ✸ Leu EA 8, 29 June 2019, lot 697
24 24     Lindgren I, A1194A
25 25     Münzzentrum 100, 8 Sept. 1999, lot 209 = Schenk-Behrens 77, 19 June 1999, lot 442
26 26     N&N London EA 53, 7 Sept. 2024, lot 339
27 27     Naumann 107, 5 Sept. 2021, lot 1158
28 28     Roma Numismatics EA 1, 31 Aug. 2013, lot 374
29 29     Savoca EA 243 Silver, 24 Nov. 2024, lot 143
30 30     SNG vA 4905 = M&M AG, 13, 17 June 1954, lot 910 = Auctiones 5, 2 Dec. 1975, lot 165 = vA Pisidien I, 163
31 31     WAG Online oHG 119, 16 May 2021, lot 106