RPC IV.4, 1595

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1595
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Caesar)
Issue Year ΙΖ = 17
Dating AD 153/4
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος 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 L ΙΖ
Edition (ἔτους) ιζʹ
Translation of year 17
Reverse design Nilus, with crocodile beside him, reclining left, holding reed and cornucopia, (from which issues Genius holding wreath); before, dome (inscribed ΙϚ), in front of which stands Genius (or beside which, Genius on back of another, inscribing dome); below, water-plants
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 21.52 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 9056
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     G SNG 4252 = MacDonald III, 476, no. 511, pl. LXXXVIII, 19
2 2     NY: 1944.100.61233
3 3     Aiello
4 4     ✸ DS 9056 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 171 (Staffieri) = Auctiones AG 7 (7 June 1977), lot 450 (Figari - Mosconi 825)