RPC IV.4, 2947

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 2947
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Year Ϛ = 6
Dating AD 165/6
Obverse inscription Λ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Obverse design laureate head of Lucius Verus with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription ϹΗΜΑϹΙΑ L Ϛ
Reverse design Semasia (or Alexandria), wearing elephant's-head cap, galloping, left, holding palm-branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Axis 12
Reference D 3780, DS 9506, DS Suppl pl 25, 26
Specimens 25 (10 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1864,1118.563 BMC 1381, pl. XI (rev.)
2 2     P: 2659
3 3     ✸ P: 2656 bis
4 4     P: 2657
5 5     B: 28884
6 6     B: Löbb.
7 7     NY: 1944.100.61727
8 8     NY: 1944.100.61726
9 9     NY: 1973.56.895
10 10     NY: 1944.100.61729
11 11     A: 2567b / 211
12 12     A: 3360a / 273
13 13     A: D 2232 / 3360
14 14     Milan SNG 1389
15 15     CNA 12 (26. 9. 1990), coll. Wetterstrom, 282
16 16     CNG MBS 64, 24 Sept. 2003, lot 752 = UBS Gold & Numismatics Auction 56, 28 Jan. 2003, lot 281
17 17     D 3780 = Künker 347, 22 Mar. 2021, lot 258
18 18     DS 9506 = Naville Numismatics 51, 21 July 2019, lot 361 = Matthijs
19 19     Elsen 113, 16 June 2012, lot 527 = Nomos 24, 22 May 2022, lot 363
20 20     Elsen 134, 9 Sept. 2017, lot 542
21 21     Jacquier 38, 13 Sept. 2013, lot 250
22 22     Künker 136, 10 Mar. 2008, lot 1061
23 23     Niggeler 766 (ex Münzen und Medaillen 13 (1954), 957) = CNG 64 (24. 9. 2003), 752
24 24     Rauch E-20, 27 June 2016, lot 180 = Matthijs
25 25     Staffieri