Philip II, as Caesar
Rome 244-246 CE
AR Antoninianus 23mm, 4,12g
M IVL PHILPPVS CAES, radiate draped and cuirassed bust right / PRINCIPI IVVENT, Philip II, in military attire, standing left, holding spear and globe.
RIC 218d; RSC 48
Mesopotamia. Nisibis
Philip II 47-249 CE
Æ 27mm, 12,31g
Obv: AVTOK K M IOVΛI ΦIΛIΠΠOC CЄB. Laureate and cuirassed bust left.
Rev: IOV CЄΠ KOΛΩ NЄCIBI MHT. Statue of Tyche seated facing, with ram leaping right, head left, above; all within tetrastyle temple below which half-length river-god Mygdonius swims to right.
SNG Copenhagen 242; BMC 17-19
Cyrrhestica, Cyrrhus
Philip II. 247-249 CE
AE 28mm 13.16g
Obv: AVTOK K M IOVΛI ΦΙΛΙΠΠOC CЄB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right
Rev: ΔIOC K[A]TЄBATOV / KVPHCTΩN, Hexastyle temple of Zeus Kataibates, within which is the god seated facing, holding a thunderbolt and sceptre, eagle at his feet; above temple, ram leaping left, head right.
Butcher 21c
238 CE
Birth of Philip II to Otacilia Severa and Philip I.
248 CE
August
August
Philip I elevates his son, Philip II, to co-augustus.
249 CE
Philip II is killed in the arms of his mother, Otacilia Severa.