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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/26618 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | VIII |
Number | — (unassigned; ID 26618) |
Province | Syria Phoenice |
Region | Syria |
City | Damascus |
Reign | Philip I |
Person (obv.) | Philip I (Augustus) |
Issue | Fine style |
Dating | AD 247–9 |
Obverse inscription | IMP C M IVL PHILIPPVS PIO FEL AVG (sic) |
Edition | Imp(erator) C(aesar) M(arcus) Iul(ius) Philippus Pi{o}(us) Fel(ix) Aug(ustus) |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Marcus Julius Philippus Pious Fortunate Augustus |
Obverse design | laureate and cuirassed bust of Philip I, left, seen from front |
Reverse inscription | COL DAMAS METROP |
Edition | col(onia) Damas(co) metrop(oli) |
Translation | in the colony Damascus, metropolis |
Reverse design | Fortuna seated left, on rock, holding fillet or diadem and cornucopia; in upper left field, ram leaping left, head right; below, upper part of river god Chrysoroas swimming |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 29 mm |
Average weight | 15.37 g |
Axis | 12 |
Specimens | 8 (1 in the core collections) |