RPC IV.2, 1019 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 1019 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Sardis
Region Uncertain
City Koinon of the Thirteen Cities
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Claudius Fronto (asiarch (of the Koinon of Asia) and archiereus of the Koinon of the Thirteen Cities)
Dating c. 140–144
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΙ ΑΙ ΑΔΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ΕΥ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing paludamentum, left, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΙ ΠΟΛΕΩΝ ΠΡΟ Μ ΚΛ ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑΡΧ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΙ ΓΙ ΠΟΛΕΩΝ
Reverse design Omphale standing, facing, head, right, clasping hands with nude Heracles who is sitting on rock covered with lion skin, left; to left, quiver with bow and arrows; to right leaning against rock, club
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 44 mm
Axis 12
Reference Gillespie 12–13 corr.
Specimens 4 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1979-1-1-1703 vA 7811
2 2     L: 1974-1-2-30
3 3     ✸ P: 1111 (85) (Medaillon) Gillespie 12, pl. V.12, end of reverse legend tooled
4 4     Ex private coll. T. Bieder = T. Bieder, Hamburger Beiträge zur Numismatik 1 (1947), 74, pl. 3 = Gillespie 13, pl. V.13