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Obverse: "BACIΛЄWC PHCVOΠOPIN" Veiled and draped bust right. Mint and Year: Bosporus, Struck year 548 = AD 251-252 Diameter: 19 mm Weight: 7.52 grams Die axis: 0 degrees Rarity: common Reverse: King Rheskuporis IV facing right. Attribution: BMC |
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| PISIDIA-ANTIOCHIA |
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Obverse: "IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS A" Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right from the rear. Mint and Year: Pisidia-Antiochia Diameter: 26 mm Weight: 10.81 grams Die axis: 15 degrees Rarity: common Reverse: "ANTIOCHI COLON S R" Legionary eagle between two standards. Attribution: Krzyzanowska IX/21; SNG Cop. 76 |
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PISIDIA - ANTIOCHIA |
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Obverse: "IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS A" Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right from the rear. Mint and Year: Antioch - undated (AD 244-249) Diameter: 24 mm Weight: 5.84 grams Die axis: 30 degrees Rarity: common Reverse: "ANTIOCHI COL S R" Men (the God) standing right. Attribution:
Krzyzanowska IX/30; |
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PISIDIA - ANTIOCHIA |
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Obverse: "IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS PF
AVG PM" Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right from the rear. Mint and Year: Antioch - undated (AD 244) Diameter: 28 mm Weight: 11.36 grams Die axis: 200 degrees Rarity: unknown Reverse: "CAES ANTIOCH COL S R" Pax running left, holding olive-branch and scepter. Attribution: note: This early issue from Antioch shows Philip I looking very much like Gordian III. |
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PISIDIA - ANTIOCHIA |
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Obverse: "IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS PF
AVG PM" Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right from the rear. Mint and Year: Antioch - undated (AD 244) Diameter: 27 mm Weight: 9.35 grams Die axis: 200 degrees Rarity: unknown Reverse: "CAES ANTIOCHI COL" Emperor in triumphal quadriga right holding eagle-tipped scepter; SR in exergue. Attribution: SGI 4125 (incorrectly attributed to Philip II) note: This early issue from Antioch shows Philip I looking very much like Gordian III. |
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PISIDIA - ETENNA |
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Obverse: "AY K M IOYΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟC CЄB" Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right from the rear. Mint and Year: Etenna - undated (AD 244-249) Diameter: 36 mm Weight: 19.44 grams Die axis: 180 degrees Rarity: unlisted Reverse: "ЄTЄNNЄΠ" Hades in galloping quadriga left, abducting Persephone; torch and overturned Kantharos below. Attribution: unknown CNG write-up describing this reverse: Hades fell in love with Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, and asked Zeus for permission to marry her. Zeus feared to offend his eldest brother by a downright refusal, but knew also that Demeter would not forgive him if Persephone were committed to the underworld. Zeus "therefore answered politically that he could neither give nor withhold his consent." This emboldened Hades to abduct Persephone, as she was picking flowers in a meadow, and carry her away in his horse-drawn chariot to the underworld. |
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