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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2012718, member: 44316&quot;]This is a correction to the initial post in this thread which was about this 19 mm coin, a Philip I (AD 244-249):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]362864[/ATTACH]</p><p>which the seller and I both thought was unpublished from Antioch. However, it turns out it is really attributed to Phillipopolis (in southern Syria, and thus not in Butcher&#039;s book on coins of northern Syria and not in McAlee&#039;s book on coins of Antioch). It shares an obverse die with a coin of this size but a different reverse from Antioch. Kevin Buthcher published the type in an article &quot;Two related coinages of the third century A.D.: Phillipopolis and Samosta&quot; in IJN 1987, He discusses die-sharing between Syrian cities. He knew of four examples of this type at the time. There is one in the new publication of the Sofaer collection &quot;Coins of the Holy Land&quot; by Meshorer. So, with the CNG piece I mentioned, there seem to be at least seven examples. Still rare, but not as rare as I thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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