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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: PHILIP I, AD 244-249. AR Antoninianus.
Obverse: IMP. M. IVL. PHILIPPVS AVG. His radiated and draped bust right.
Reverse: VIRTVS AVG. Virtus seated left on shield and trophy holding spear and olive branch.
Reference: RIC 53; Sear 2583.
Comments: For more information, read the "Philip I" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Philip see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews. (NOTE: Some of the entries may be for the Greek generals named Philip.)