RPC IV.4, 2334

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 2334
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus) ; Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Year Β = 2
Dating AD 161/2
Obverse inscription ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ
Edition Ἀντωνῖνος καὶ Οὐῆρος Σεβαστός Ἀντωνῖνος καὶ Οὐῆρος Σεβαστός
Translation Antoninus and Verus Augustus
Obverse design bare-headed busts of Lucius Verus (on left) and Marcus Aurelius (on right), facing each other, both wearing paludamentum
Reverse inscription L Β
Edition ἔτους βʹ (ἔτους) βʹ
Translation of year 2
Reverse design draped bust of Nike, right, wearing taenia
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 25 mm
Average weight 11.39 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 2267/1, 4, 2331/1–4.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 1967/1736 (Maspero)
2 2     NY: 1973.56.874