RPC IV.4, 1297 (forgery)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1297 (forgery)
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Caesar)
Issue Year ΙΔ = 14
Dating AD 150/1
Obverse inscription Μ Α]ΥΡΗΛΙϹ Κ[ΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιο(ς) Καῖσαρ
Translation Marcus Aurelius Caesar
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (short beard) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΗΡΑ]ΚΛΕ[ΟΠ (?) L ΙΔ
Edition Ἡρακλεόπ(ολις) (ἔτους) ιδʹ
Translation Heracleopolis, of year 14
Reverse design griffin seated, right, paw on wheel
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 19.25 g
Axis 12
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 1294/7, 1295/6, 1296/22, 1299/3–4. 1: same rev. die as 1296/22.
Note From the same pair of dies as https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/coin/116484, which lacks the inscription in the exergue. This suggests that the inscription has been tooled on, presumably as a reference to the Heracleopolite nome (ΗΡΑΚΛƐΟΠ), for which Heracles is depicted with a griffin (WG p. 184 Hadrian no. 3). No other nome coins are known after Pius year 8.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ CNG EA 287, 26 Sept. 2012, lot 385