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Aphilas

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His coins
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{{Aksum Succession box|common_name=Aphilas|image_coin=Aphilas.jpg}}{{s-start}}{{s-bef|before=Endubis}}{{s-ttl|title=King of Aksum|years=}}{{s-aft|after=Wazeba}}{{s-end}}{{end box}}Aphilas (early 4th century) was a King of the Kingdom of Aksum in East Africa modern day northern Ethiopia and Eritrea . He is known from the coins he minted, which are characterized by a number of experiments in imagery on the obverse, and being issued in fractions of weight that none of his successors copied.^[1]G.W.B. Huntingford suggests that he was the ruler who erected the anonymous inscription at Adulis known as the Monumentum Adulitanum.^[2]

His coins

Aphilas produced the smallest gold coins ever minted in sub-saharan Africa, equivalent to one sixteenth of a Roman aureus. The obverse of this coin features not only his portrait, but the crescent and disc symbolic of the pre-Christian beliefs of Axum. The reverse features his name and title rendered in Greek, the lingua-franca of the civilized world at that time. Note that the "A"s lack a horizontal crossbar but have a dot placed below them instead.

His silver coin features his portrait on both the obverse and reverse with the disc and crescent (at top). The reverse revals a distinguishing feature of Axumite coinage; gilding. The reverse interior portrait is overlaid with gold.

Notes

1. ^S. C. Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), p. 188.
2. ^G.W.B. Huntingford, The Historical Geography of Ethiopia (London: The British Academy, 1989), pp. 40f.

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2 : Kings of Axum|4th-century monarchs in Africa

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