RPC IV.2, 1076 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 1076 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Miletus
Region Ionia
City Miletus
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus) ; Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Publius Aelius Protoleon, son of Themistokles (in office for the second time)
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating c. 178–179
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡ ΚοΜΜοΔοϹ
Obverse design to left, laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (thin face with very long beard), right; to right, laureate-headed bust of Commodus (youthful), left, both wearing cuirass and paludamentum
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΑΙΛ ΠΡΩΤΟΛΕΟΝΤΟϹ ΤΟ Β ΜΙΛΗϹΙΩΝ
Reverse design Leto advancing, left, head, right, carrying her two children (Apollo and Artemis)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Axis 6
Reference Roch XXVI.1, Temporini 355, no. III.5, BMC 158 corr.
Specimens 5 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BMC 158, wrongly restoring name of 'magistrate' as 'ΠΡΩΤΟ[Υ] ΑΡ[ΧΟΝΤ]Ο⊏'
2 2     ✸ B: 18292759, 1906 Löbbecke Temporini 355, no. III.5, pl. 76
3 3     Lindgren I, A518A
4 4     Lanz 92 (04/06/1999), 687, pl. 28, wrongly restoring the name of the 'magistrate' as 'ΠΡΟΤ[ΟΥ ΑΡΧ]ΟΝΤΟС' = Peus 384 (02/11/2005), 843
5 5     CNG 90 (23/05/2012), 975