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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Philip I| > RS91602
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 as the goddess who prospered the year's 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 which purchased each year by the Roman state, then imported and put into storage, reserved and distributed for the subsistence of the people. Annona militaris was grain appropriated to the use of an army during a campaign.
RS91602. Silver antoninianus, RIC IV 28c, RSC IV 25, Hunter III 26, SRCV III 8922, Choice VF, full borders strike, flow lines, tiny edge cracks, Rome mint, weight 4.055g, maximum diameter 23.4mm, die axis 0o, 247 A.D.; obverse IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse ANNONA AVGG, Annona standing left, stalks of grain in right hand over modius of grain at feet, cornucopia in left; from the Maxwell Hunt Collection; SOLD




  







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