RPC VIII, — (unassigned; ID 2820)

 

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Coin type
Volume VIII
Number — (unassigned; ID 2820)
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Philip I
Person (obv.) Philip II (Caesar)
Person (rev.) Philip I (Augustus)
Issue LΔ = year 4
Dating AD 246/7
Obverse inscription Μ ΙΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ Κ Ϲ(Ε)(Β)
Nominative Marcus Iulius Philippus Caesar Augusti filius
Obverse design bare-headed and cuirassed bust of Philip II, right, seen from front, with gorgoneion on cuirass
Reverse inscription L - Δ
Reverse design Philip I, laureate, on horseback, riding right, raising right arm, and holding sceptre over left shoulder
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 3, 11, 12
Reference BMC 2052; D 5016–17; M 3687–8; Geissen 2791–2
Specimens 37 (16 in the core collections)
Note The figure on the rev. is laureate, so depicts Philip I rather than Philip II (who is then only Caesar and, consequently, bare-headed). See also the introduction to Alexandria.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     L: 1856,0903.53 BMC 2052
— —     P: Vogüé 621
— —     P: AA.GR.710
— —     ✸ P: 1984.779
— —     P: AA.GR.20554
— —     B: 18274561, 1862/28263
— —     B: 18274560, Löbb.
— —     Cop SNG 730
— —     NY: 1944.100.67242
— —     NY: 1935.117.895
— —     NY: 1944.100.67243
— —     NY: 1944.100.67244
— —     NY: 1974.26.4425
— —     O: HCR31262 M 3687
— —     O: HCR31263 M 3688
— —     V: GR 25370
— —     A: 4244 (Demetriou)
— —     Cologne Geissen 2791
— —     Cologne Geissen 2792
— —     Frankfurt: 3116 Förschner 1002
— —     CNG EA 386, 9 Nov. 2016, lot 474
— —     CNG EA 445, 5 June 2019, lot 305
— —     DS 12476
— —     Emporium Hamburg 68, 15 Nov. 2012, lot 478
— —     Figari & Mosconi 1558 = D 5017
— —     Figari & Mosconi 1559 = Hirsch 199, 6 May 1998, lot 346 = DS 10440
— —     Helios 5, 25 June 2010, lot 1166 = F. Sternberg 16, 15 Nov. 1985, lot 328 = Münzhandlung Basel 6, 18 Mar. 1936, lot 1186
— —     Hirsch 317, 18 Feb. 2016, lot 2365 = CNG 23, 13 Oct. 1992, lot 435
— —     J. Aiello coll.
— —     J. Aiello coll.
— —     J. Aiello coll. = D 5016
— —     Künker 97, 7 Mar. 2005, lot 1785
— —     Naville Numismatics 42, 22 July 2018, lot 280
— —     Pecunem 38, 6 Dec. 2015, lot 675
— —     Peus 409, 25 Apr. 2013, lot 1005
— —     Rauch E-20, 27 June 2016, lot 194 = Rauch 86, 12 May 2010, lot 1055
— —     Roma Numismatics 4, 30 Sept. 2012, lot 760