★ Tyche & river-god Euphrates. ★

MESOPOTAMIA, Nisibis. Philip II. AD. 247-249. Æ (9.66 gm; 23 mm). Radiate and cuirassed bust left, wearing paludamentum / Tyche of Antioch seated facing; above, ram (Aries) leaping right, head left; all within tetrastyle shrine; below, river-god Euphrates swimming right. Cf. BMC 22-3 (Philip I); cf. SNG Copenhagen 240 (same); cf. Lindgren II 2604 (same); Agora 71, 203. Well struck on a full flan. Choice EF. Original brown patina.