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1000th Birthday of Rome

343, Lot: 539. Estimate $200.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I. AD 244-249. Æ Sestertius (28mm, 16.15 g, 6h). Secular Games issue. Rome mint, 5th officina. 10th emission, AD 249. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / MILIARIVM SAECVLVM, cippus inscribed COS/III in two lines. RIC IV 157a; Banti 24. VF, attractive green patina, minor die shift on the obverse.


From Group SGF.

AD 248 marked the 1000th birthday of Rome. The ‘millenary age’ is conveyed through the use of the reverse legend Miliarium Saeculum, commemorating Rome’s newly completed millennium and commencement of another.