RPC IV.4, 2335

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 2335
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus) ; Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Year Β = 2
Dating AD 161/2
Obverse inscription ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ(?)
Edition Ἀντωνῖνος καὶ Οὐῆρος Σεβαστός Ἀντωνῖνος καὶ Οὐῆρος Σεβαστός
Translation Antoninus and Verus Augustus
Obverse design bare-headed busts of Lucius Verus (on left) and Marcus Aurelius (on right), facing each other, both wearing paludamentum
Reverse inscription L Β
Edition ἔτους βʹ (ἔτους) βʹ
Translation of year 2
Reverse design draped bust of Nike, right, with topknot, wearing taenia, palm-branch over shoulder
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 12.92 g
Axis 12
Reference DS 9149, Geissen 2120
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 2332/1–3.
Note The last letter of the inscription may be a Ϲ as on the other obverse die with bare-headed busts, or an Ι, or a Ϲ corrected to an Ι.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Cologne Geissen 2120
2 2     DS 9149 = Wishnevsky coll. = Kölner Münzkabinett 122, 2024, lot 528