RPC IV.4, 3040

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3040
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Year Ζ = 7
Dating AD 166/7
Obverse inscription Λ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ(Α)
Edition Λούκιος Αὐρήλιος Οὐῆρος Σεβαστός Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρήλιος Οὐῆρος Σεβα(στός)
Translation Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Lucius Verus with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L Ζ
Edition ἔτους ζʹ (ἔτους) ζʹ
Translation of year 7
Reverse design Nike galloping, left, holding wreath and trophy; (below, fallen foe wearing high cap, (another behind or supplicating))
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Average weight 19.47 g
Axis 12
Reference D 3741, pl. XVIII (rev.), 3742, DS 9484
Specimens 10 (4 in the core collections)
Note Some Υ forms. Dattari describes the head on D 3741 as having an aegis and lion's head (?) behind. These seem rather to be blocked letters (the first Λ and last Α of the inscription). No other portrait of Verus of this year has an aegis, and no portrait at all has a lion's head.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.61740
2 2     NY: 1944.100.61738
3 3     NY: 1944.100.61739
4 4     V: GR 24931
5 5     CNG 25 (24. 3. 1993), 931
6 6     D 3742 = Naville Numismatics 80, 2 Apr. 2023, lot 453
7 7     Dattari = D 3741, pl. XVIII (rev.)
8 8     DS 9484 = Naville Numismatics 69, 14 Nov. 2021, lot 237
9 9     ✸ Künker eLive 43, 7 Dec. 2016, lot 293
10 10     Matthijs