RPC IV.2, 1077 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 1077 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Miletus
Region Ionia
City Miletus
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (Caesar)
Magistrate Aelianus Asclepiades Polites
Dating 175–176
Obverse inscription Λ ΑΥΡ ΚοΜοΔοϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Κόμοδος Καῖσαρ
Translation Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΑΙΛΙ ΠΟΛΕΙΤΟΥ ΜΙΛΗϹΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Αἰλι(ανοῦ) Πολείτου Μιλησίων
Translation under Aelianus Polites, of the Milesians
Reverse design nude Apollo (Delphinios) seated on rock, left, head, right, placing right hand on top of his head, holding bow in left hand, resting with left arm on omphalos around which serpent coils
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Average weight 24.26 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference Roch XXIII.1, GM 647, no. 338
Specimens 5 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: 18279429, I-B GM 647, no. 338, reverse with traces of tooling
2 2     Weber 6061
3 3     C McClean III, 8244, pl. 285.18
4 4     B: 18292840, 1921/549
5 5     Yale: 2013.17.237 Peus 366 (29/10/2000), coll. Marcel Burstein, 646, pl. 33