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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Philip I| > RB91598
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.|, Annona was worshiped in Rome for providing the annual supply of grain. She was represented on an altar in the capital. The three principal granaries of Rome were Sicily, Egypt, and the African provinces. Annona civilis was the grain purchased each year by the state, imported, put into storage reserve, and then distributed for the subsistence of the people. Annona militaris was grain appropriated to the use of an army during a campaign.
RB91598. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 168a, Cohen V 26, Hunter III 91, SRCV III 8990, Choice VF, excellent portrait, well centered and struck, squared flan as typical for the type, slightest porosity, Rome mint, weight 17.425g, maximum diameter 30.3mm, die axis 0o, 247 - 249 A.D.; obverse IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind; reverse ANNONA AVGG, Annona standing left, grain in right hand held over modius, cornucopia in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking across field; from the Maxwell Hunt Collection; SOLD




  







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