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Æ26 - Philippus I CAES ANTIOCH COL S R
| Issuer | Antioch of Pisidia |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse description | The goddess Pax striding left, her body shown in three-quarter view, holding an olive branch in her extended right hand and a long transverse scepter in her left hand. The figure is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Pisidian Antioch, with flowing drapery. In the central field, the letters S and R flank the figure on either side, serving as a value or control mark. The colonial legend is distributed around the periphery within a beaded border. |
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| Mintage | ND (244-249) |
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Antioch of Pisidia was a Roman colony founded by Augustus specifically to project military authority into a region the Republic had never fully pacified. Its coins were produced with that colonial identity front and center, and issues under Philip I — himself a Syrian Arab who became emperor after engineering or at least benefiting from the death of Gordian III — carry a particular tension between provincial pride and imperial legitimacy. The SNG France reference range suggests moderate die variation within the type, consistent with what the Pisidian mint produced under pressure during Philip's abbreviated reign.