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Greece/Seleucid/Posthumous Philip I Philadelphos Circa 69-57 BCE


AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.08 g, 12h). Antioch mint.  possibly Philip II Barypous? BCE 67/66

SC 2488.6 

O: Diademed head right within fillet border 

R:  Zeus Nikephoros seated left; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩ[Σ] ΦΙΛΙΠΠOV in two lines on the r., ΕΠΙΦAΝΟVΣ ΦΙΛΑΔΕΛΦOV in two lines on l. 
inner left control Φ, static control under throne, and T in ex. all within laurel wreath border.

Cf. Petr Vesely's discussion of this type  http://www.seleukidtraces.info/collection/philip_ii.html#p_2