RPC IV.1, 10346 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 10346 (temporary)
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Augusta Traiana
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Marcus and Verus, co-emperors
Dating 161–169
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ
Obverse design bare head of Lucius Verus, right
Reverse inscription ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΗϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗϹ
Reverse design nude Dionysus (youthful) standing, left, crossing legs, holding bunch of grapes( or cantharus?) over panther, holding thyrsus and chlamys, resting left arm on column
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Axis 7
Reference Schönert-Geiss, MATT 94
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Gorny & Mosch 122 (10/03/2003), 1706
1 1     Plovdiv, National Museum 709 = Schönert-Geiss, MATT 94, pl. 6 (V37 and R75), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin, found at Plovdiv
2 2     ✸ Nomos Obolos 16 (11/10/2020), The Vineyard Collection, 468