RPC IV.4, 3459

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3459
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Commodus
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Year ΚƐ = 25
Dating AD 184/5
Obverse inscription Μ Α ΚΟΜ ΑΝΤ(ω) ϹΕΒ ΕΥϹΕΒ(ΗϹ)
Obverse design laureate head of Commodus, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΕ
Reverse design to left, bust of Sarapis, right, wearing kalathos, on short column; to right, emperor (Commodus) standing, left, wearing priestly headdress and toga, dropping incense on altar (or thymiaterion)
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 3848 (= DS 3847), Geissen 2218
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
Note See the note on https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/25640.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.61810
2 2     Cologne Geissen 2218
3 3     CNG 41 (19. 3. 1997), 1294 = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 188 (Staffieri)
4 4     CNG EA 115, 25 May 2005, lot 325 = CNG EA 138, 26 Apr. 2006, lot 183
5 5     ✸ CNG EA 403, 9 Aug. 2017, lot 421