A friend has asked me to help ID a number of coins he acquired some years ago. Most I have cracked, but a few are giving me a headache - can you help? This one clearly has "Phillipus" in the legend, but I can't make it fit any of the legends for Philip 1 or Philip 2 in Sear. Also, the reverse looks very weird - is this a fake or have I missed the point? Measures about 29mm across and weighs about 14.5g.
Found this on wildwinds: Philip I, AE28 of Heliopolis, Coele-Syria. IMP CAES M IVL PHILPPVS OVBOVS, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / IOMH COL HEL above and beneath the temple of Zeus Heliopolitanus, seen in perspective, with numerous columns, standing on podium, approached by a flight of steps in front, grain ear to right. IAPN BOC Vol 18, No. 1, example 10. A modern fake of BMC 15; de Saulcy TS 2 with the spelling error PHILPPVS and the nonsensical ending OVBOVS. So yes, looks to be a fake.
