Philip I "the Arab" | AE SestertiusReference: RIC IV 150
Date: 247 CE
Obverse: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG; bust laureate, draped, cuirassed, right
Reverse: P M TR P IIII COS II P P S C; Felicitas, draped, standing left, holding long caduceus in right hand and cornucopiae in left hand
Mint: Rome
Size: 30.2 mm
Weight: 17.41 mm
Ex. David Connors. A nice, datable example of a third century sestertius. The debasement crisis of the third century greatly weakened the status of the bronze coinage. Sestertii continued to be struck in some quantity until the mid reign of Valerian and Gallienus. In his monetary reform of 274 CE, Aurelian attempted to reintroduce the denarius and the sestertius in debased and reduced size. Both attempts failed however, and the denominations disappeared from the Roman coinage. Some earthen encrustations with minor surface roughness.
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