RPC IV.4, 3012

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3012
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ζ = 7
Dating AD 166/7
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟΝ ϹΕ (?)
Edition Μ(ᾶρκον) Αὐρήλι(ον) Ἀντωνῖνον Σε(βαστὸν)
Translation for Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design bare head of Marcus Aurelius, left
Reverse inscription L Ζ
Edition (ἔτους) ζʹ
Translation year 7
Reverse design to left, Sarapis as fountain-god standing, left, head, right, wearing kalathos, holding taenia over lebes on stand; to right, Isis, wearing basileion, holding wreath over his head, and cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Average weight 23.52 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference DS 9307
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 2874/1–2, 2901/1–5, 3003/1, 3, 3011/3–4. 1–2: same rev. die as 3044/1–2.
Note Just possibly ΑVΡΗΛΙΟΝ, as on the other die with bare head of Marcus Aurelius, l., but the terminal ΟΝ is not visible on any specimen from this die.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.61747
2 2     DS 9307 = Naville Numismatics 70, 12 Dec. 2021, lot 295