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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: PHILIP II, AD 247-249. AR Antoninianus.
Obverse: M. IVL. PHILIPPVS CAES. His young radiated and draped bust to the right.
Reverse: IOVI CONSERVAT. Jupiter standing to the left holding sceptre and thunderbolt.
Reference: RIC 213 (Philip I); Sear 2650 var. Grade: chVF.
Comments: For more information, read the "Philip the Arab" 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.)