Live auction - bpv_1030674 - PHILIPPUS Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
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Live starting : Type : Tétradrachme syro-phénicien
Date: 244
Mint name / Town : Antioche, Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,83 g.
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Buste finement détaillé. Très joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine grise avec de légers reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Philippe Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse legend : AUTOK K M IOUL FILIPPOU SEB, (Autokratoros Kaisaros Markos Ioulios Filippos Sebastos)
Obverse translation : (L’empereur césar Marc Jules Philippe auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S|C// MON VRB À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Aigle debout à droite, les ailes déployées, tête et queue à gauche, tenant une couronne feuillée dans son bec, sans ligne de terre.
Reverse legend : DHMARC - EX OUSIAS, (Dhmarcikhs Ex Ousias)
Reverse translation : (Revêtu de la puissance tribunitienne/ Monnaie de la Ville / avec l’accord du Sénat).
Commentary
Dans la base TSP maintenue par Michel Prieur, cinquante-cinq exemplaires sont maintenant répertoriés pour le type sans ligne de terre seul dont en musées Berlin (3), British Museum, Paris (2), Princeton, ANS (2) et Oxford.
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, fifty-five examples are now listed for the type without ground line alone, including in museums Berlin (3), British Museum, Paris (2), Princeton, ANS (2) and Oxford
In the TSP database maintained by Michel Prieur, fifty-five examples are now listed for the type without ground line alone, including in museums Berlin (3), British Museum, Paris (2), Princeton, ANS (2) and Oxford
Historical background
PHILIPPUS
(03/244-09/249)
Philippe was born in Bostra in Trachonitis, a province of Arabia, hence the nickname of the Emperor. He was appointed Prefect of the Praetorium after the disappearance of Timésithée, father-in-law of Gordian III, in 243. Philip had Gordian assassinated or allowed to be assassinated at the beginning of 244, then hastened to conclude an infamous peace with the Sassanids. He pays them a tribute of 500,000 denarii. He named his son Philip Caesar in 244 and his wife Otacilia Sévéra augusta. In 247, Philip raises his son to august. He led a brilliant campaign against the Quades and the Carpes who had invaded Dacia. The great event of the reign of Philip is the commemoration of the millennium of Rome which begins on April 21, 247. Several usurpers, including Jotapien and Pacatian, proclaim themselves august at the end of the reign. Philippe instructs Decius, commander of the legions of Pannonia, to restore order on the Danube. The troops, against his will, proclaim Decius august in June or July 249. Philip dies fighting the troops of Decius in September 249.
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