Philip I, AE40 of Bizya, Thrace. AYT M IOYL FILIPPOC AYG, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right. BIZYHN-WN, a man and a woman (Asklepios and Hygieia?) seating facing each other on a long seat, a low three-legged table beside the male and a serpent-entwined staff beside the woman. A male figure in a short chiton and with hand on an amphora to left, a tree in the background, an oval shield above and the forepart of a horse left in right field. Hermitage 4745 (= Schlessinger Hermitage theft sale, 462, this coin); BMC 10; Jurukova 133. In 1933 Stalins's communist thugs ransacked the Hermitage collection in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and stole about 2,000 gold, silver and bronze coins. These were sent to Felix Schlessinger in Berlin for sale in auctions in 1933 and 1934, the financial proceeds of which were used for the communist "cause". The final 1,655 coins were auctioned at Schlessinger's auction, 4th-6th Febraury 1935, described obscurely as "aus Museumsbesitz" ("from the possession of a museum") and when advertising the auctions, Schlessinger knowingly dishonestly described the coins as "Dubletten" (second examples), being complicit in this shocking looting of the Hermitage. The display cases which contained the stolen coins in the Hermitage now show empty spaces, in the heartbreaking hope that the coins will one day "come back home".