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ID number: BIRBI-R1694 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Philip I; Rome Denomination: Sestertius Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: 244-249 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.15 Weight (g): 20.59 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 1046. W. S. Lincoln, 1928. |

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Description: Obverse: Head of Philip, wearing a laurel wreath and beard, draped and cuirassed, facing r. Reverse: Salus, draped, standing facing l., feeding snake coiled around altar out of r. and holding vertical sceptre in l.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG (Imperator Marcus Julius Philip Augustus). Reverse: SALVS AVG S C (Dedicated to the Health of the Emperor; S C - Translation Disputed).
Bibliography: RIC IV 187
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