RPC VIII, — (unassigned; ID 6458)

 

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Coin type
Volume VIII
Number — (unassigned; ID 6458)
Province Syria Phoenice
Region Syria
City Heliopolis
Reign Philip I
Person (obv.) Philip I (Augustus)
Dating AD 244/5
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚ Κ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Marcus Iulius Philippus Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription COL IVL AVG FEL, I O M H
Reverse design propylaeum of the temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus with stairway flanked by pedestals leading to a portico with twelve columns flanked by towers; ear of corn in central arch; below, altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Axis 5, 6
Reference Sawaya series 44, 508–509
Specimens 6 (2 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    L: 1900,0707.15
    ✸ B: 18209470, 1921/248
    cgb.fr MBS 21, 18 June 2004, lot 3052
    CNG Triton XXXIII, 15 Mar. 1995, lot 1316
    L. Schulman B. V. 29, 10 Nov. 2003, lot 2421
    M&M GmbH 14, 16 Apr. 2004, lot 706