RPC IV.4, 3073

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3073
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Issue Year Η = 8
Dating AD 167/8
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕ(Β)
Edition Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβαστός Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Marcus Aurelius with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription L Η
Edition ἔτους ηʹ (ἔτους) ηʹ
Translation of year 8
Reverse design Triptolemus, wearing elephant's-head cap, holding seeds in chlamys, driving biga drawn by winged serpents, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Average weight 22.58 g
Axis 12
Reference D 3536, Geissen 2063
Specimens 5 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 4: same obv. die as 3076/2.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1933,0606.1 BMC Suppl 3062 = Deutsche Munzblätter 56 (1936), 203, c (pl. 165, 4)
2 2     NY: 1944.100.61301
3 3     Cologne Geissen 2063
4 4     ✸ D 3536 = Naville Numismatics 79, 12 Feb. 2023, lot 326
5 5     Malloy 14 (2.7.1979), 344