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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Crisis & Decline| > |Philip I| > RB87835
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.|, During Philip's reign the 1000th anniversary of Rome (248 A.D.) was celebrated, and magnificent games were held. This coin was issued as part of that celebration and the reverse undoubted depicts one of the animal types displayed and hunted in the Colosseum during the games.
RB87835. Orichalcum sestertius, RIC IV 160a; Cohen V 183, Hunter III 107, SRCV III 9012, VF, nice portrait, well centered, some bumps and scratches, a little rough and porous, edge cracks, traces of shellac(?), Rome mint, weight 16.917g, maximum diameter 28.6mm, die axis 0o, 248 A.D.; obverse IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped (and cuirassed?) bust right, seen from behind; reverse SAECVLARES AVGG (Secular games [provided by] the Emperors), stag standing right, S C (senatus consulto) in exergue; SOLD




  






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Cloke, H. & L. Toone. The London Mint of Constantius & Constantine. (London, 2015).

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