RPC IV.4, 1747

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1747
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Caesar)
Issue Year ΙΗ = 18
Dating AD 154/5
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Καῖσαρ Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος Καῖσαρ
Translation Marcus Aurelius Caesar
Obverse design bare head of Marcus Aurelius (short beard), right
Reverse inscription L ΙΗ
Edition ἔτους ιηʹ (ἔτους) ιηʹ
Translation of year 18
Reverse design dolphin, downwards
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 4.64 g
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 1629/1–2, 1630/1–4, 1632/1–3, 1748/1–3, 1808/1, 4–5, 7–8, 10–11. 1: same rev. die as 1749/1, 1808/4, 10, 1810/1–2.
Note The Η of the date is not very clear and might have been recut on the die from a Ζ. It was subsequently recut into a Θ. The obverse die was carried over from year 17.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Berkeley, Museum of Anthropology, University of California = JEA 21 (1935), 215, no. 5, pl. XXVI, 11