RPC IV.4, 3388

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3388
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΒ = 22
Dating AD 181/2
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡ(Η) ΚΟΜ(ΜΟ) ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ (ϹΕ)
Edition Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρή(λιος) Κόμμο(δος) Ἀντωνῖνος Σε(βαστός)
Translation Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Commodus, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΒ
Edition (ἔτους) κβʹ
Translation of year 22
Reverse design Roma (or Athena) seated, left, holding Nike, resting hand on long sceptre; beside throne, shield
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 11.78 g
Axis 1, 10, 11, 12
Reference D 3861, 3862 corr., DS 9566–9, 9609, 12314–15 (on pl. 208), Geissen 2207, M 2632
Specimens 73 (39 in the core collections)
Note Conventionally described as Athena but surely Roma, as holding a sceptre and no aegis visible. Some Υ and Ⲱ forms.

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