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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4518600, member: 110350&quot;]This coin isn&#039;t part of the SAECVLARES AVGG series -- in fact, it isn&#039;t even a Roman Imperial coin -- but it is a coin issued for a member of Philip I&#039;s family, with an animal reverse, so I thought I would post it here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip II, Silvered billon Tetradrachm, 248-249 AD, Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Antioch Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind, AYTOK K M IOΥΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CEB / Rev. Eagle standing facing, head right, wings spread, holding wreath in its beak, ΔHMAΡX EΞ OYCIAC YΠATO Δ [<i>4th consulship</i>]; ANTIOXIA / S C in two lines below eagle.&nbsp; Prieur [<i>Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms, </i>by Michel and Karin Prieur (London, 2000)] 474, BMC Syria 560 (1899), McAlee [<i>The Coins of Roman Antioch, </i>by Richard McAlee (2007)] 1042, RPC VIII No. 29020 (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29020" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29020" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/29020</a>).&nbsp; 27.15 mm., 14.00 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex. CNG Electronic Auction 466, April 22, 2020, part of Lot 728.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1119448[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1119449[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>This is my first Roman Provincial tetradrachm.&nbsp; The seller bought it as part of a lot of seven provincial tetradrachms in a CNG auction last month, and then turned around and sold the pieces individually.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure he made a nice profit, even though he didn&#039;t charge me that much for the one I bought.&nbsp; Interestingly, this coin (like the others in the lot) was described as &quot;AR&quot; by CNG, and by the seller to me, but all the catalogs, so far as I can tell, identify it either as billon (<i>i.e</i>., as less than 50% silver) or as &quot;debased silver&quot; (on RPC VIII online).&nbsp; In hand, it actually looks very much like a silver coin (more so than in my photos), which is why I describe it as &quot;silvered billon.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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