RPC IV.4, 1955

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 1955
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Caesar)
Issue Year ΚΑ = 21
Dating AD 157/8
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
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 L ΚΑ
Edition (ἔτους) καʹ
Translation of year 20
Reverse design Nilus seated on rocks up which crocodile climbs, left, head, right, holding reed and cornucopia
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 10.00 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference DS 9028, Geissen 1939
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ A: D 2001B / 1896/7, IA 436/793
2 2     Cologne Geissen 1939
3 3     DS 9028 = Naville Numismatics 35, 29 Oct. 2017, lot 432