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Extremely Rare Herod IV Philip Bronze

216, Lot: 393. Estimate $100.
Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Herodians. Caesaraea Panias. Herod IV Philip, with Augustus. 4 BCE-34 CE. Æ 20mm (6.13 g, 1h). Dated RY 5 (1 CE). Head of Augustus right / Head of Philip right; [date] across fields; c/m: uncertain design. RPC I 4938 (same dies as plated specimen); Meshorer 95a (with c/m); Hendin 528. Near Fine, rough surfaces. Extremely rare.


An extremely rare specimen and the oldest portrait of a Jewish king. See Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 495 for a slightly better specimen that brought a hammer price of $780.