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Philip I the Arab, February 244 - End of September 249 A.D., Samosata, Commagene, Syria
Samosata was an ancient city on the right (west) bank of the Euphrates whose ruins existed at the modern city of Samsat, Adiyaman Province, Turkey until the site was flooded by the newly constructed Atatürk Dam. The founder of the city was Sames, a Satrap of Commagene who made it his capital. The city was sometimes called Antiochia in Commagene and served as the capital for the Hellenistic Kingdom of Commagene from c. 160 BC until it was surrendered to Rome in 72. A civil metropolis from the days of Emperor Hadrian, Samosata was the home of the Legio VI Ferrata and later Legio XVI Flavia Firma, and the terminus of several military roads. Seven Christian martyrs were crucified in 297 in Samosata for refusing to perform a pagan rite in celebration of the victory of Maximian over the Sassanids. It was at Samosata that Julian II had ships made in his expedition against Sapor, and it was a natural crossing-place in the struggle between Heraclius and Chosroes in the 7th century.RB94242. Bronze provincial sestertius, BMC Galatia p. 122, 47 ff.; SNG Hunterian II 2609; McClean 9366; Lindgren I, 1903; Butcher CRS 31a; RPC Online VIII (unassigned, ID 8339, 40 spec.), aF, porous, pitting, Samosata (site now flooded by the Atatürk Dam) mint, weight 17.302g, maximum diameter 31.9mm, die axis 180o, Feb 244 - End Sep 249 A.D.; obverse AYTOK K M IOYΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CEB, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from the front; reverse ΦΛ CAMOCATEWN MHTPOΠ KOM, city goddess seated left on rocks, turreted, veiled, eagle on right arm, grain ears downward in right hand, left hand on rock, Pegasus leaping left at feet; from an American collector; SOLD
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