Lot 4788

Description

Syria, Cyrrhestica, Cyrrhus, Philip II, (247-249 A.D.), AE Sestertius, AE 28, (14.15 grams), obv. around AVTOK K M IOV**LI FILIPPO*1C CEB, Philip I, bust laureate, cuirassed and draped to right, rev. around **D*IO1C KATEBATOY, in exergue KYPHCT**WN*, a hexastyle temple, containing Zeus Kataibates seated facing, eagle at his feet, in field above bull (Taurus) running to left, (S.4143 [p.397] BMC 34 [p.137], SNG Cop.49 [Pl.2, corrected from Philip I], Butcher 21 var. (bull leaping left)). Good fine/very fine with soil patination, very scarce.

Ex Estate of Cornelius C. Vermeule III, USA. Butcher notes that obverse dies of Philip for Cyrrhus are shared with Hierapolis, Zeugma, and Samosata and suggests that this coinage under Philip's reign was struck at Antioch.