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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 4770282, member: 14873&quot;]I couldn’t remember why I chose the following sestertius of Philip I to illustrate the (approximate) beginning of the decline of the quality of Roman Imperal coin lettering …………</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1162039[/ATTACH]</p><p>RIC IV 187a, Philip I, Date: 244-249 AD, 29.79 mm, 16.81 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse depiction: laureate, draped and cuirassed bust facing right.</p><p>Inscription: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse depiction: Salus standing left, holding scepter and feeding snake which arises from altar before her.</p><p>Inscription: SALVS AVG, S - C, left and right.</p><p><br /></p><p>…………… then I remembered,&nbsp; it was because the commemoration of the one thousandth anniversary of the founding of Rome occurred during his reign. The traditional foundation date is April 21, 753 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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