83, Lot: 220. Estimate $75. Sold for $47. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHILIP II. 247-249 AD. AR Antoninianus (22mm, 3.78 gm). Struck circa 248-249 AD. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Philip II and Philip I seated left on curule chairs, extending hands; Philip I also holding sword. RIC IV 230; RSC 17. Toned, good VF.

The reverse legend LIBERALITAS AVGG III indicates that this coin commemorates a distribution of imperial largess, and was issued sometime after the millenial anniversary of in 248 AD and the final departure of the imperial pair from Rome in 249 AD to battle Trajan Decius.