Philip the Arab - Felicitas, Rome or Antioch

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  1. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    Do you know how to distinguish this issue between the mints of Rome and Antioch?:confused:

    I got this Antoninianus in a multiple lot. The flip it came with says Antioch, but after researching numismatic.org I think it is from Rome, like this one:
    https://numismatics.org/collection/1948.19.633

    AR Antoninianus, Rome (?) 247 AD
    21 mm, 3.41 g
    RIC IV Philip I, 4; RSC 136; SRCV (2000 Ed.) 8946;

    Ob.: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG Bust of Philippus, radiate, draped and cuirassed, to r.
    Rev.: P M TR P IIII COS II P P Felicitas standing to l., holding long caduceus in r. hand and cornucopia in l.

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    Very grateful for any info
     

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  3. Victor_Clark

    Victor_Clark all my best friends are dead Romans Supporter

    A French collector made this observation a few years ago that on this type (with Felicitas reverse) from Antioch, the hair lines are parallel with the crown; while on Rome they are perpendicular.

    Antioche-Rome[1].jpg

    By this method, yours is from Rome. Antioch issues are also much rarer than the Rome issue.

    Here is his website--

    http://marchal.thibaut.free.fr/e_index.htm
     
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  4. cmezner

    cmezner do ut des Supporter

    That's really great information you shared. Thank you very much @Victor_Clark
     
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  5. Bing

    Bing Illegitimi non carborundum Supporter

    Ditto
     
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