RPC VIII, — (unassigned; ID 2210)

 

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Coin type
Volume VIII
Number — (unassigned; ID 2210)
Province Arabia
Region Arabia
City Philippopolis
Reign Philip I
Person (obv.) Philip I (Augustus)
Dating AD 247/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Marcus Iulius Philippus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Philip I, right, with drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription S C
Reverse design helmeted and draped bust of Roma, right, within laurel wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Axis 6, 12
Reference Spijkerman —
Specimens 12 (4 in the core collections)
Note On the attribution of these coins to Philippolopis, see K. Butcher, 'Two Related Coinages of the Third Century AD: Philippopolis and Samosata', INJ 9 (1986–7), p. 76.
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Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     L: 1936,0715.1
— —     P: 689
— —     B: 18273354, 1921/239
— —     O: Milne
— —     IMJ Sofaer 6
— —     CGT coll. = Agora Auctions 39, 25 Aug. 2015, lot 97
— —     CNG EA 235, 23 June 2010, lot 364
— —     ✸ CNG EA 259, 6 July 2011, lot 272
— —     Gerasa excavations, A.R. Bellinger, 'Coins from Jerash', NNM 81 (1938), pp. 32–3, pl. III, 54
— —     Gorny & Mosch EA 295, 22 Mar. 2023, lot 2279
— —     Lindgren III, 1554
— —     Peus 366, 29 Oct. 2000, lot 1161