Description

ROMAN EMPIRE.

Provincial Coinage.

Syria, Seleucis and Pieria.

Philip I, (The Arab) A.D. 244-249.

AR Tetradrachm, Antiochia circa A.D. 248.

Obverse: Philip I bust left, Radiate, and cuirassed.

Legend in Greek: AYTOK K M IOYΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ CЄB. (Emperor and Caesar, Marcus Julius Philip, Augustus.)

Reverse: Eagle with spread wings standing left with wings spread, holding wreath in beak.

Below exergue SC, indicating that the coin was struck with permission from, and under the authority of the Senate in Rome.

Reverse legend in Greek: ΔHMAPX EΞ OYCIAC YΠATO Δ.

Mint Antioch.

Billon, 25mm, 11.93g.

Catalogue: Prieur 353.

Grade: EF. Excellent portrait.