RPC IV.4, 3433

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3433
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΔ = 24
Dating AD 183/4
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗ ΚΟΜΜ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ Ϲ
Edition Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρή(λιος) Κόμμ(οδος) Ἀντωνῖνος Σ(εβαστός)
Translation Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Commodus, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΔ
Edition (ἔτους) κδʹ
Translation of year 24
Reverse design to left, bust of Sarapis, right, wearing kalathos, on short column; to right, emperor (Commodus) standing, left, wearing priestly headdress and toga, dropping incense on altar (or thymiaterion)
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 10.58 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 9553
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Note See the note on https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25640.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1845,1217.127 BMC 1432, pl. XXVII (rev.)
2 2     CNG EA 368, 10 Feb. 2016, lot 328
3 3     DS 9553 = Naville Numismatics 50, 23 June 2019, lot 309
4 4     ✸ Peus 406, 25 Apr. 2012, lot 649 = Peus 409, 25 Apr. 2013, lot 933 = CNG EA 388, 14 Dec. 2016, lot 346