RPC VIII, — (unassigned; ID 6492)

 

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Coin type
Volume VIII
Number — (unassigned; ID 6492)
Province Syria Phoenice
Region Syria
City Heliopolis
Reign Philip I
Person (obv.) Philip I (Augustus)
Obverse inscription IMP CAES M IVL PHILIPPVS PIVS FEL AVG
Edition Imp(erator) Caes(ar) M(arcus) Iul(ius) Philippus Pius Fel(ix) Aug(ustus)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Julius Philippus Pious Fortunate Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription COL IVL AVG FE, I O M H, COL HEL
Edition Col(onia) Iul(ia) Aug(usta) Fe(lix) I(upiter) O(ptimus) M(aximus) col(onia) Hel(iopolitana)
Translation the Augustan colony of Julia Felix; Jupiter of Heliopolis, the best and greatest; the colony of Heliopolis
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
Average weight 13.58 g
Axis 1, 6, 11, 12
Reference Sawaya series 44, 488–96
Specimens 13 (7 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     L: 1844,0425.1523.c BMC 16 = Price & Trell p. 162, fig. 284
— —     L: 1847,1101.279 BMC 17
— —     B: 18209463, I-B
— —     Mu
— —     NY: 1961.154.365
— —     V: GR 21905
— —     V: GR 21904
— —     Bern: N/82.2167 SNG Righetti 2167
— —     Winterthur: G 6873 GrMW III, 1010
— —     CGT coll.
— —     CNG EA 292, 5 Dec. 2012, lot 314
— —     CNG MBS 75, 23 May 2007, lot 847
— —     ✸ Leu EA 17, 14 Aug. 2021, lot 2023