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Antioch AE30 SGI 4147 of Philip II

PhiliP II AE 29 of Antioch, Syria. AVTOK K M IOVLI FILIPPOC CEB, laureate draped bust right / ANTIOCEWN MHTRO KOLWN D-e S-C, turreted bust of Tyche right, ram leaping right above, star below.

Lot No.3408. Fine.

$ 85.

Philip II was the son of Philip the Arab and Otacilia Severa. He was made Caesar when his father assumed the throne in 244 AD, and Augustus in 247 AD, but he soon shared his father's fate when they were killed by Trajan Decius' rebel forces at Verona in 249 AD.