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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2556262, member: 56859&quot;]I don&#039;t have a Philip I curule chair but here&#039;s a little provincial of his:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/thrace-deultum-philipi-beehive-jpg.411240/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>THRACE, Deultum. Philip I &quot;The Arab&quot;</b></p><p>CE 244-249</p><p>AE16, 3.05 gm</p><p>Obv: PHILIPPVS IMP M I; laureate, draped, cuirassed bust left, holding spear and shield</p><p>Rev: C-F P-D in two lines across fields, beehive on a base</p><p>Ref: Varbanov 3041 corr. (rev. description; Varbanov describes the beehive as on a temple, similar to the known type of Philip II, but on this coin it appears to be a simple base or stand)</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-honey-of-a-coin-philip-i-provincial-with-beehive.263409/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-honey-of-a-coin-philip-i-provincial-with-beehive.263409/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-honey-of-a-coin-philip-i-provincial-with-beehive.263409/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As for curule chairs, I have these two interesting coins which were struck and issued, later to be restruck with special ring dies which altered only the perimeter legends:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lydia-sardes-germanicusdrusus-2nd-jpg.415005/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/lydia-sardes-germanicusdrusus-1stexample-jpg.415004/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>LYDIA, Sardes</b> (... or maybe not)</p><p>Germanicus and Drusus</p><p>Struck CE 23-26?</p><p>restruck by Asinius Pollio, proconsul of Asia under Caligula, CE 37-38?</p><p>Æ26, 13.78 gm</p><p>Obv: ΔPOYΣOΣ KAI ΓEPMANIKOΣ NEIOI ΘEOI ΦIΛAΔEΛΦOI; Germanicus and Drusus seated left on curule chairs, one holding lituus.</p><p>Rev: ΓAIΩ AΣINNIΩ ΠΩΛΛIΩNI ANΘYΠATΩ; KOINOY/ AΣIAΣ within wreath</p><p>Ref: RPC 2995, Sear 365</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-puzzling-provincial-of-germanicus-and-drusus.264079/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-puzzling-provincial-of-germanicus-and-drusus.264079/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-puzzling-provincial-of-germanicus-and-drusus.264079/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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