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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24658954, member: 26430&quot;]Here&#039;s a Philip II AR Antoninianus from my &quot;captives&quot; collection (ex Adrian Lang Collection):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1571591[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><b>Philip II AR Antoninianus</b> (23mm, 3.80g, 6h), Rome, 247 CE. </p><p><b>Obv</b>: M IVL PHILIPPVS CAES. Radiate and draped bust of Philip II to right, seen from behind. </p><p><b>Rev</b>: PRINCIPI IVVENT. Philip II holding globe &amp; inverted spear; beneath, Eastern captive wearing point cap, seated left. </p><p><b>Ref</b>: RIC 219</p><p><b>Prov</b>: Ex Adrian Lang Collection, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9738544" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9738544" rel="nofollow">Leu WA 21 (19 Jul 2022), 4737</a> [their photo]</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>A favorite Provincial of mine is a Philip II, and may have a connection to his death. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/philip-ii-thessalonica-temple-jpg.1562803/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/69113" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/69113" rel="nofollow">RPC Temp 69113</a> (specimen 6)</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is from Macedon, Thessalonica, a city that bore the important title of a &quot;Neokorate&quot; city, meaning it had favored status with Rome. (It also celebrates the city&#039;s second Pythian Games: &quot;·ΠΥΘΙΑΔΙ· ·B·&quot;.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Under the successors of Philip I &amp; Philip II, Trajan Decius &amp; sons, who overthrew the Philippi, though, the city was bumped up to an unprecedented &quot;Quadruple Neokorate.&quot; The only plausible explanation is that the city sided with the Decii and somehow assisted them in the civil, and was thus rewarded mightily. (See, e.g., Curtis Clay&#039;s comments in <a href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/201st_buy_or_bid_sale" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/hjb-ancientcoins/docs/201st_buy_or_bid_sale" rel="nofollow">H.J. Berk 201st Buy Bid Sale</a> [Catalog], <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4279991" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4279991" rel="nofollow">Lot 377</a> [ACS].)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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