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Samosata AE24 SNGCop 24 of Philip I

Philip Sr (or Jr?) Æ24 of Commagene, Samosata. AVTOK K M IOYLI FILIPPOC CEB, laureate, draped & cuirassed bust right / CAMOCATEWN, city-goddess seated left on rock, holding eagle, Pegasus left below.

Lot No.2864. VF and Rare.

$ 205.

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.