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RPC
VI, 8208 (temporary)
Province
Syria Phoenice
City
Aradus
Region
Phoenicia
Reign
Elagabalus
Obverse inscription
ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤ
ω
ΝΙΝΟϹ
Obverse design
radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription
ΑΡΑΔΙ
ω
Ν [
Ε
Ζ(retrograde)ΟΥ]
Reverse design
cypress tree between lion, right, and bull, left, confronted; in the background, standard shaped as a hand behind the bull, vexillum behind the lion; over lion's head, crescent
Coin no. 1 of
RPC
VI, 8208 (temporary)
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/405431
Museum
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (UK)
Inventory no.
Reference
Diameter
25.7
Weight
Axis
1
Note
the portrait on this die is completely different from the other ones; the style resembles that of portraits adopted at Caesarea ad Libanum in year 531 of thee local era (AD 219/220), so it is possible that the engraver who cut this die worked on the coinage of the colony the following year