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Philipp I and Diocletian/Maximian hybrid (so-called 'tourist fake')
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Philipp I, AD 244-249
AE 28, 5.74g, 27.63g, 165°
obv. AVTOK K M IOVLI FILIPPOC CEB
Bust, draped and cuirassed, seen from behind, laureate, r.
rev. GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI
Genius, nude, with modius, stg. frontal, head l., holding in l. arm cornucopiae and in extended r. hand
patera, from which water flows downwards
in l. and r. field XX - E / I
in ex. ALE
ref. rev. cf. RIC VI, Alexandria 32/33 (for Diocletian and Maximian)
obv. cf. Antiochia, Prieur 444/445
cast, reddish sand patina,
This cast hybrid of a coin of Philipp I and Diocletian/Maximian is probably a tourist fake.
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