RPC IV.4, 3536

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3536
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚΘ = 29
Dating AD 188/9
Obverse inscription Μ Α ΚΟΜ ΑΝΤω ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹΕΒ
Obverse design laureate head of Commodus, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΘ
Reverse design Dikaiosyne (or Moneta) seated, left, holding scales and long sceptre
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 12
Reference D 3863, Geissen 2238, M 2679
Specimens 24 (14 in the core collections)
Note Some Υ forms. The seated figure on the reverse is traditionally identified as Dikaiosyne. On coins of Roman Egypt a standing female figure with scales and a long sceptre is labelled ΔΙΚΑΙΟΣΥΝΗ on coins under Vespasian and Domitian but ΜΟΝΗΤΑ on coins under Marcus Aurelius. Dikaiosyne is often depicted seated but with a cornucopia rather than a sceptre. Moneta is not otherwise shown seated at Alexandria (unless misidentifed as Dikaiosyne), but she is depicted seated on imperial coins, again with a cornucopia rather than a sceptre. A standing figure of Moneta with scales and a sceptre, and money bags at her feet, is shown on AE 23 of years 28 and 29: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25725; https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25744.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 1412
2 2     L: G.1968 BMC Suppl 3106
3 3     L: G.1969 BMC Suppl 3107
4 4     P: 2749
5 5     P: Doubles 451
6 6     C
7 7     G SNG 4315 = MacDonald III, 485, no. 569
8 8     Mu: 452
9 9     NY: 1974.26.3910
10 10     NY: 1944.100.61846
11 11     NY: 1944.100.61847
12 12     NY: 1944.100.61845
13 13     O: HCR27049 M 2679
14 14     V: GR 24986
15 15     A: D 2281 / 3432
16 16     A: 6746
17 17     Cologne Geissen 2238
18 18     Frankfurt Förschner 762
19 19    
20 20     ✸ CNG EA 297, 27 Feb. 2013, lot 267
21 21     CNG MBS 79, 17 Sept. 2008, lot 725
22 22     D 3863 = Naville Numismatics 36, 3 Dec. 2017, lot 456
23 23     Gorny & Mosch 134, 11 Oct. 2004, lot 2304
24 24     Peus 409, 25 Apr. 2013, lot 937