Philippus I - Antoninian Annona inscription / Aequitas type

[dwarf]

I hope not be struck with blindness - but I just cannot find something similar

Philip I., Antoninianus, Rome mint:
IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG / ANNONA AVGG Aequitas (sic) holding scales and cornucopiae

A wild mixture of inscription (RIC 28b) and depiction (RIC 27b). Probably the die cutter had a bad day

Perhaps someone in the community knows more - thanks

Regards
Klaus

[Curtis JJ]

Wow, that is interesting! I've got a few Philip Annona Ants, and a few Aequitas, but never seen them combined like that before. To be honest, I might've just looked right past the discrepancy and never noticed anything unusual.

[quadrans]

I agree, this coin are interesting…👍

Nice find. 👍👍

Joe

[curtislclay]

I have studied and collected Philip's Roman coinage for over twenty years, but have never seen or heard of this particular type-legend mix-up before.

Not that it is surprising or teaches us anything new: Mattingly long ago realized that Philip's AEQVITAS AVGG and ANNONA AVGG types must belong to the same issue (RIC p. 57).

[dwarf]

I got some help in the German forum (special thanks to user Priscus, who is active here as well)

There is another coin - die identical - in the collection of late James Shaffer.
His website was taken down, but accessible by Wayback Machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20191224170621/http://ettuantiquities.com/Philip_1/index.htm

Here is the coin
https://web.archive.org/web/20150930184111/http://ettuantiquities.com/Philip_1/images/P1-RSC32V1.jpg

Roger Bland just informed me that this mixture was unknown to him, too.

Regards
Klaus

[Curtis JJ]

Good research, Klaus! Thanks for posting the page to Shaffer's page, I had not seen it but am going through. (I wonder what happened to his collection?) Wayback machine is great!!