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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Philip I| > SH59594
Philip I the Arab, February 244 - End of September 249 A.D.
|Philip| |I|, |Philip| |I| |the| |Arab,| |February| |244| |-| |End| |of| |September| |249| |A.D.|, The curule chair was for senior magistrates including dictators, masters of the horse, consuls, praetors, censors, and the curule aediles. As a form of a throne, it might be given as an honor to foreign kings recognized formally as a friend (amicus) by the Roman people or senate. Designed for use by commanders in the field, the curule chair could be folded for easy transport. It had no back, low arms, curved legs forming an X, and was traditionally made of or veneered with ivory.
SH59594. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 148a, Cohen V 121, Hunter III 54, SRCV III 9003, gVF, flan flaw, Rome mint, weight 18.909g, maximum diameter 30.5mm, die axis 0o, 245 A.D.; obverse IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse P M TR P II COS P P (high priest, holder of Tribunitian power for two years, consul, father of the country), emperor seated left on curule chair, globe in right hand, short scepter pointed downward in left, S C (senatus consulto) in exergue; SOLD




  







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