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Contributor: Clay Dorminey.
Issuer: PHILIP II, AD 247-249. AR Antoninianus (4.0g).
Obverse: M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES, his radiate and draped bust facing right.
Reverse: PRINCIPI IVVENT, Philip II standing left holding a globe and inverted spear.
Reference: RIC 218d; Cohen 48. Grade: EF.
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.)