RPC III, 754

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 754
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Philippopolis
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Aelius (Caesar)
Obverse inscription Λ ΑΙΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Λ(ούκιος) Αἴλιος Καῖσαρ
Translation Lucius Aelius Caesar
Obverse design bare head of Aelius, right
Reverse inscription ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Edition Φιλιπποπολειτῶν
Translation of the Philippopolitans
Reverse design Apollo (?) standing left, naked but a drapery on his right shoulder, holding patera in his right hand and two arrows (?) in his left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 11.48 g
Axis 6
Reference Mouchmov 22, Varbanov 642
Specimens 10 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same rev. die as 748/1.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: Cousinéry
2 2     B: 18248001, 28773
3 3     Sofia: 1539 Mouchmov, pl. II, 22
4 4     ✸ Lanz 114, 26 May 2003, lot 390
5 5     Gorny & Mosch 142, 10–11 Oct. 2005, lot 1893
6 6     Lanz 147, 2 Nov. 2009, lot 341
7 7     MM Deutschland 36, 30 May 2012, lot 568 = Münzhandlung Sonntag 22, 30 Nov. 2015, lot 43
8 8     Rauch 284, 26–27 Sept. 2012, lot 2841
9 9     vcoins = MünzZentrum 181, 17–18 May 2017, lot 232
10 10     Leu WA 28, 9–14 Dec. 2023, lot 2192 = Lanz 164, 23 May 2017, lot 193