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RIC 32b of Philip I

Philip I AR Antoninianus. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate draped bust right / FIDES MILIT, Fides standing left holding two standardis. RSC 55.

Lot No.1549.

$ 25.

Philip I the Arab was Gordian III's Praetorian Prefect, but he had ambitions of his own and had Gordian murdered and assumed the throne in 244 AD. He was killed by the forces of Trajan Decius in 249 AD.