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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 1143128, member: 5739&quot;]Cool one <b>Ripley</b>, I hope to get a tetradrachm of Philip II as Caesar with a bare head one of these days, I have several of him as co-Emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also yes he died during the battle of Verona (we think) when future Emperor Decius&#039; troops met those of current (not for much longer) Emperor Philip I. And also, Philip II was only 11 when he was killed according to most sources.... awful young today.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Beautiful Claudius of Spes <b>doug</b>. Amazing detail on the obverse, and on the clothes and drapery of Spes, it does look like sheer fabric heh. If I had a spare 7000 USD, I might consider it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I like the thing about the flower being there to symbolize fruits to come in the future, very insightful.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the note of Philip I artwork, I agree that on some of the bronzes, as well as the Antioch mint and Eastern Silver antoninianii of him and his son, the artwork wasn&#039;t as good as it had been just years before, and fairly low quality on some..... but there are still plenty of Rome mint Antoninianii I have seen with very nice worksmanship, the FELICITAS TEMP version I have is a pretty good example, but I have seen far better. Plus, the frontal bust style Antoninianii of Antioch can be pretty well done, as well as some of the Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachmai of him I have, and others I have seen have <u>very </u>nice work on the busts.</p><p>But I think I know what you mean about it being &#039;regularly&#039; bad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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