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| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 216 | Auction date: 12 August 2009 |
| Lot number: 348 | |
| Lot description: Roman Provincial SYRIA, Cyrrhestica. Cyrrhus. Philip II. AD 247-249. Æ 30mm (14.29 g, 6h). Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Zeus Kataibates seated facing below garlands, holding thunderbolt and scepter, eagle at his feet to left, within hexastyle temple with arched pediment; above, bull (Taurus) leaping right. Butcher 21 var. (bull leaping left); SNG Copenhagen 49 corr. (under Philip I, bull not described); BMC 34 corr. (bull described as ram; same rev. die [obv. not illustrated]). Good VF, brown patina. Butcher notes that obverse dies of Philip for Cyrrhus are shared with Hierapolis, Zeugma, and Samosata and suggests that the coinage under his reign was struck at Antioch. Estimate: $200 |  |
