RPC IV.4, 3168

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3168
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΑ = 11
Dating AD 170/1
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
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 ΙΑ (?)
Edition ἔτους ιαʹ (ἔτους) ιαʹ
Translation of year 11
Reverse design Isis, wearing basileion, seated, right; hawk on throne; on knee, Harpocrates, crowned with skhent, raising hand, holding lotus-flower; before, palm-branch(?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 27.32 g
Axis 12
Reference M 2610?
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 2: same obv. die as 3222/3. 2: same rev. die as 3169/1–3.
Note The obverse die-link with year 12 and the continuity of type from year 10 makes the reading L ΙΑ plausibe (as opposed to L ΙΔ). The obverse die is incredibly close to one from year 10: https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/69856.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     O: HCR33716 M 2610 corr.
2 2     ✸ Naville Numismatics 45, 9 Dec. 2018, lot 221 = Matthijs