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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Greek Imperial| > |Asia Minor & Cyprus| > SH58900
Philip I the Arab, February 244 - End of September 249 A.D., Soli-Pompeiopolis, Cilicia
|Asia| |Minor| |&| |Cyprus|, |Philip| |I| |the| |Arab,| |February| |244| |-| |End| |of| |September| |249| |A.D.,| |Soli-Pompeiopolis,| |Cilicia|, Aratos was a native of Soli. His chief pursuits were medicine, grammar, and philosophy. He studied with Menecrates in Ephesus, Philitas in Cos and Praxiphanes in Athens. About 276 he was invited to the court of the Antigonus II Gonatas, whose victory over the Gauls in 277 BC Aratus set to verse. There he wrote his most famous poem, Phaenomena ("Appearances"). He then spent some time at the court of Antiochus I Soter but returned to Pella where he died sometime before 240 B.C.
SH58900. Bronze hexassarion, Lindgren I 1605 (same dies); Milne NC 1940, p. 247, 20; BMC Lycaonia -; SNG BnF -; SNG Levante -; SNGvA -; SNG Cop -; SNG PfPS -, gF, Cilicia, Soli-Pompeiopolis (near Mersin, Turkey) mint, weight 12.323g, maximum diameter 32.4mm, die axis 180o, 245 - 246 A.D.; obverse AYT K IOY ΦIΛIΠΠOC EY CEB, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, Π - Π across field; reverse ΠOMΠHIOΠOΛ IAT (year 311) Σ (6 assaria), bare-headed, draped bust of Aratos right; ex Ancient Numismatic Enterprise, comes with an old round coin ticket probably from Seaby 1960's or 1970's, BIG 32mm bronze; extremely rare; SOLD











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