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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 2709679, member: 32619&quot;]This was one of two coins that I bought at the same time and turned me into a passionate and &quot;serious&quot; ancient coin collector:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/jwt-16-philip-i-felicitas.3142/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Philip I, AD 244-249</p><p>AR, Antoninianus, 3.7g, 21.5mm; 1h; Rome, AD 247 </p><p>Obv.: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG; radiate, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right Rev.: P M TR P IIII COS II P P; Felicitas standing left holding caduceus &amp; cornucopia.</p><p><br /></p><p>My other Philip I was not purchased for the obverse portrait but for the city that issued them:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/jwt-90-phillip-i-viminacium-moesia.3836/full" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Philip I, AD 244-248</p><p>AE, 15.1g, 28mm; 6h; Viminacium, AD 248</p><p>Obv.: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG; laureate, draped, &amp; cuirassed bust right</p><p>Rev.: P M S COL VIM; Moesia standing, looking left between bull and lion</p><p>In Ex.: AN VIIII</p><p><br /></p><p>Collecting ancients is just swell. Let the power of the Dark Side flow through you![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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