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Æ32 - Philip I L Ϛ
| Issuer | Alexandria (Egypt) |
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| Year | 248-249 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | L Ϛ (Translation: of year 6) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Philip I's sixth Alexandrian regnal year (248–249 AD) coincided with the ludi saeculares — Rome's thousandth anniversary games — which Philip organized with considerable fanfare in the capital. Provincial mints like Alexandria continued their own dated sequences regardless, tying coinage to the emperor's regnal count rather than the Roman calendar. Philip was dead within months of this coin's minting, killed near Verona when his troops defected to Decius in September 249.