RPC IV.4, 3480

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3480
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚƐ = 25
Dating AD 184/5
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡ(Η) ΚΟΜΜ(Ο)] ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Μ(άρκος) Αὐρή(λιος) Κόμμο(δος) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Commodus, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΕ
Edition (ἔτους) κεʹ
Translation of year 25
Reverse design Nike driving galloping biga, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Reference D 3927
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Dattari read the date on D 3927 from the coin and it seems reasonably clear on the rubbing in DS. The old form of obverse legend may have been carried over with a reused die, see the note on https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25668. The reverse type is characteristic of the AE 27 denomination and indeed occurs on an AE 27 of this year with the later obverse legend (https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25670). The diameter of the present specimen is given as 25 mm by Dattari and the rubbing in DS measures only 24 mm. Even though the flan is small for the dies it is still difficult to believe that it was intended to be an AE 27.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ D 3927