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Message:: [QUOTE="Codera, post: 25301576, member: 70631"]It’s hard for me to narrow it down to just one coin, as I’ve had many over the years that I would call my favorite coin, including the one in my profile picture. As of right now however I think it might have to be this antoninianus of Philip the Arab that I picked up just recently. Not only is it in near mint condition, like this had to have been hoarded away almost immediately given the uncertain economic conditions at the time, but it also celebrates an important milestone in Roman history (their 1000th anniversary since the city’s founding by Romulus) and represents perhaps the last gasp of classical Rome in a positive light just before the worst effects of the Crisis of the Third Century (the rapid depletion of the supply of silver leading to hyperinflation, emperors being killed by the Goths or captured by the Persians, the Cyprian plague, usurpers popping up all over the place, the empire splitting into multiple parts, etc.) begin to take their toll and Roman culture is fundamentally altered during the transition into Late Antiquity and the start of the Middle Ages. [ATTACH=full]1616287[/ATTACH] PHILIP I the Arab AR Antoninianus. EF. Cippus - Saeculares.Obverse: IMP PHILIPPVS AVG. Bust radiate, draped, cuirassed right.Reverse: SAECVLARES AVGG. Cippus inscribed COS III.RIC 24c. Rome mint, AD 248. 4,1 g - 23,5 mm[/QUOTE]