RPC IV.4, 3459

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3459
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚƐ = 25
Dating AD 184/5
Obverse inscription Μ Α ΚΟΜ ΑΝΤ(ω) ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹΕΒ(ΗϹ)
Edition Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Κόμμοδος Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστὸς Εὐσεβής Μ(ᾶρκος) Α(ὐρήλιος) Κόμ(μοδος) Ἀντω(νῖνος) Σεβ(αστὸς) Εὐσεβής
Translation Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus Pious
Obverse design laureate head of Commodus, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΕ
Edition ἔτους κεʹ (ἔτους) κεʹ
Translation of year 25
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 27 mm
Average weight 12.11 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 3848 (= DS 3847), Geissen 2218
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
Note See the note on https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25640.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.61810
2 2     Cologne Geissen 2218
3 3     CNG 41 (19. 3. 1997), 1294 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 188 (Staffieri)
4 4     CNG EA 115, 25 May 2005, lot 325 = CNG EA 138, 26 Apr. 2006, lot 183
5 5     ✸ CNG EA 403, 9 Aug. 2017, lot 421