Roman Empire, Philip I, AD 249, NGC Mint State

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Roman Empire, silver, AR Double Denarius. Philip 1st, AD 244-249, 1773 years of survival! NGC certified Mint State #6158348-002.
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Philip I (AD 244-249). AR antoninianus (22mm, 4.42 g. NGC MS 5/5 - 3/5. Rome, AD 244-247. IMP M IVL PHILIPPVS AVG, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I right.
Reverse: ROMAE AETERNAE, Roma seated left on shield, Victory right in right hand, grounded scepter in left.
Philip the Arab (Latin): Marcus Julius Philippus Arabs;  circa. 204 – September 247, was Roman emperor  from 244 to 249. He was born in Aurantis, Arabia, in a city situated in modern-day Syria.
After the death of Gordian III in February 244, Philip, who had been Praetorian prefect, achieved power. He quickly negotiated peace with the Persian Sassanid Empire and returned to Rome
to be confirmed by the senate. During his reign, the city of Rome celebrated its millennium.
Philip was betrayed and killed at the Battle of Verona in September 249 following a rebellion led by his successor, Gaius Messius Quintus Decius. Philip's reign of five years was uncommonly stable
in a turbulent third century.
During the late 3rd century and into the 4th, it was held by some churchmen that Philip had been the first Christian emperor; he was described as such in Jerome's Chronicon (Chronicle),
which was well known during the Middle Ages, in Orosius' highly popular Historia Adversus Paganos (History Against the Pagans), and was presented as a Christian in Eusebius of Caesarea's Historia
Ecclesiastica (Ecclesiasticall History). Modern scholars are divided on the issue.