248 AD. Rome mint. Obv: IMP PHILIPPVS AVG legend with radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: SAECVLARES AVGG legend with cippus inscribed COS III in two lines. RIC 24c; RSC 193; Sear 8961.3.83 grams. ("). Ex Yavuz collection. The son of an Arab chieftain named Marinus, this emperor is better known as 'Philip the Arab'. He became praetorian prefect to Gordian III, whom he eventually had killed. At the height of his reign, games and spectacles were held in Rome in celebration of the city's millennium. Philip and his son were both killed in battle, and Trajan Decius took the imperial throne in 249 AD. [No Reserve]