RPC IV.4, 3040

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3040
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Year Ζ = 7
Dating AD 166/7
Obverse inscription Λ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ(Α)
Obverse design laureate head of Lucius Verus with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L Ζ
Reverse design Nike galloping, left, holding wreath and trophy; (below, fallen foe wearing high cap, (another behind or supplicating))
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Axis 12
Reference D 3741, pl. XVIII (rev.), 3742, DS 9484
Specimens 10 (4 in the core collections)
Note Some Υ forms. Dattari describes the head on D 3741 as having an aegis and lion's head (?) behind. These seem rather to be blocked letters (the first Λ and last Α of the inscription). No other portrait of Verus of this year has an aegis, and no portrait at all has a lion's head.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.61740
2 2     NY: 1944.100.61738
3 3     NY: 1944.100.61739
4 4     V: GR 24931
5 5     CNG 25 (24. 3. 1993), 931
6 6     D 3742 = Naville Numismatics 80, 2 Apr. 2023, lot 453
7 7     Dattari = D 3741, pl. XVIII (rev.)
8 8     DS 9484 = Naville Numismatics 69, 14 Nov. 2021, lot 237
9 9     ✸ Künker eLive 43, 7 Dec. 2016, lot 293
10 10     Matthijs