244-245 AD. Rome mint. Obv: IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG legend with radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right, seen from behind. Rev: SECVRIT ORBIS legend with Securitas enthroned left, resting head on left hand and holding sceptre in right. RIC 48b; RSC 215; Sear 8966.4.79 grams. ("). From the private collection of a retired Suffolk gentleman. 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]