RPC IV.2, 1076 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 1076 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Miletus
Region Ionia
City Miletus
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus) ; Commodus (Augustus)
Magistrate Publius Aelius Protoleon, son of Themistokles (in office for the second time)
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating c. 178–179
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡ ΚοΜΜοΔοϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Κόμμοδος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design to left, laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (thin face with very long beard), right; to right, laureate-headed bust of Commodus (youthful), left, both wearing cuirass and paludamentum
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΑΙΛ ΠΡΩΤΟΛΕΟΝΤΟϹ ΤΟ Β ΜΙΛΗϹΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Αἰλ(ίου) Πρωτολέοντος τὸ βʹ Μιλησίων
Translation under Aelius Protoleon, for the second time, of the Milesians
Reverse design Leto advancing, left, head, right, carrying her two children (Apollo and Artemis)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Average weight 22.02 g
Axis 6
Reference Roch XXVI.1, Temporini 355, no. III.5, BMC 158 corr.
Specimens 5 (2 in the core collections)
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