RPC IV.4, 3346

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3346
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Crispina (Augusta)
Issue Year ΙΘ = 19
Dating AD 178/9
Obverse inscription ΚΡΕΙϹΠΕΙΝΑΝ ϹΕΒ ΑΥΤ ΚΟΜΜΟΔΟΥ ϹΕΒ
Edition Κρεισπεῖναν Σεβ(αστὴν) Αὐτ(οκράτορος) Κομμόδου Σεβ(αστοῦ)
Translation for Crispina Augusta, wife of Emperor Commodus Augustus
Obverse design draped bust of Crispina, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΘ
Edition (ἔτους) ιθʹ
Translation of year 19
Reverse design Heracles and the Erymanthian boar: Heracles (youthful?), advancing, right, carrying boar over shoulder; behind, club on lion skin; to right, Eurystheus in storage jar, raising arms
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 23.64 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 9681
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 3347/1, 3360/1, 3361/1.
Note Voegtli, Heldenepen, p.23.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Bern: 80.564 DS 8681 = Jahrbuch des Bernischen Historischen Museums 63–4 (1983–4), 179 no. 28 = Auctiones 7 (7. 6. 1977), 460 (Figari - Mosconi 956) illustrated KG 42.1