No.69.   Apollonia Mordiaeum. Philip Jr.  Æ 23. A.D. 247-249.  

Obv:  AVTKMIOV L  IOC F I L  I PP OC  . Laureate, drap ed and cuirassed burst right. 
Rev: APOL LWNIATWN ,  LV  in field to right. Athena standing right, holding 
spear and resting against shield. 

Ref: BMC -. Grade: About VF, green-black patina with touches of red.   

Die Axis:  180°.  Weight:  6.14 g  .  

Very rare . The letters  LV   on the reverse are an abbreviation for
 λvkiωn,  indicating the Lycians with which the Apollonians had 
entered into an alliance.  The allliance is celebrated on a large, 
quasi-autonomous, bronce issued during the reign of Caracalla and the 
abbreviation occurs on coins struck as late as under Gallienus.  
In BMC no coins from this city are noted for Philip Jr. All in all, 
only 10 coins from Apollonia Mordiaeum exist in the BMC catalogue.   


Contributed by Henrik Agndal, May, 2003.