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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Greek Imperial| > |Mesopotamia & Babylonia| > RP111193
Philip I the Arab, February 244 - End of September 249 A.D., Nisibis, Mesopotamia
|Mesopotamia| |&| |Babylonia|, |Philip| |I| |the| |Arab,| |February| |244| |-| |End| |of| |September| |249| |A.D.,| |Nisibis,| |Mesopotamia|, Nisibis is the city of Netzivin in the Talmud. The Jews of Nisibis resisted the Roman conqueror, Trajan, to maintain Parthian rule. The city was taken only after a lengthy siege. After the it fell, Nisibis was laid waste and the massacre was so great that the houses, streets, and roads were strewn with corpses.
RP111193. Bronze AE 26, RPC Online VIII U2879 (12 spec.); BMC Mesopotamia p. 123, 21; SNG Cop 240; SNG Hunterian -, VF, attractive, broad flan, porous, minor flan flaws, Nisibis (Nusaybin, Turkey) mint, weight 14.559g, maximum diameter 25.8mm, die axis 0o, 247 - 249 A.D.; obverse AYTOK K M IOYΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CEB, radiate and cuirassed bust of Philip I left, seen from front, wearing balteus; reverse IOY CEΠ KOΛΩ NECIBI MHT (MH ligate), temple with arched pediment and four twisted columns enclosing draped, veiled and turreted Tyche seated facing, wearing veil, chiton and mantle, ram leaping right above her, half figure of river god swimming right below; from the Michael Arslan Collection; SOLD











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