Philip II as Augustus. Billon Tetradrachm, 12.69 (11h). Alexandria, Year 7 = 249 AD. Obv: A K M IOY ΦIΛIΠΠOC EYCE Bust laureate, cuirassed right, seen from front. Rx: Laureate bust of Zeus right, fold of cloak on front shoulder, date L - Z across field. Dattari-Savio pl. 265, 5063 (same dies). Emmett 3612/7 (R3). Not in Cologne, BMC, or Oxford. Very rare. About EF
Ex Peter Lowrek Collection
Rare final year of the reign of Philip I and II at Alexandria, lasting only about a month from the Egyptian New Year on 29 August 249 until the arrival of news of their defeat and elimination in battle by Trajan Decius