RPC IV.4, 3161

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3161
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Issue Year Ι = 10
Dating AD 169/70
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Marcus Aurelius, right
Reverse inscription L Ι (?)
Edition (ἔτους) ιʹ
Translation of year 10
Reverse design Isis, crowned, seated, right; on knee, Harpocrates, crowned with skhent, (holding lotus-flower), raising hand; on throne, hawk; before, palm-branch(?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Average weight 21.74 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 3169/1–3. 2: same obv. die as 3164/1, 3, 5. 1: same rev. die as 3162/2.
Note If this is a palm-branch, as expected, it is rendered in an unusual fashion (cf https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/69855; https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25443). The reading of the date is not certain, and might be L Ι or L ΙΑ. The reverse type is paralleled for both years. One obverse die is otherwise known only for year 10, the other otherwise only for year 11.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.61319
2 2     ✸ V: GR 24847