Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 735. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Philip I, with Philip II. AD 244-249. Æ 35mm (19.21 g, 6h). Cidyessus in Phrygia mint. Aur. Markos, first archon. AVT [K] • M • IOV • • ΦΙΛΙ ΠΠOI • CEB •, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Philip I right, seen from behind, and laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Philip II left, vis-à-vis / ЄПI • AVP • M APKO V • APX • ПPΩ •, TO • B across field, KIΔVHCCЄ/ΩN in two lines in exergue, Hygieia, feeding serpent held in right hand from a phiale held in left, and Asclepius, leaning on serpent-entwined staff, standing vis-à-vis; between them, hooded and cloaked figure of Telesphorus standing facing. Von Aulock, Phrygiens 584-5 (same dies); SNG München -; SNG von Aulock -; SNG Copenhagen -. VF, blue-black patina with dusty gray overtones. Very rare, with no example listed in Coin Archives.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.

Von Aulock recorded only two examples of this type, one in Florence and the other in Paris.