RPC IV.2, 1991 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 1991 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Apamea
Region Phrygia
City Eumenea
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Antoninus Pius
Dating 138-161, probably c. 144-146
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟ ΚΑΙϹ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Ἀντωνεῖνος Αὐτο(κράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Antoninus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and aegis, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΕΥΜΕΝΕΩΝ ΑΧΑΙΩΝ
Edition Εὐμενέων Ἀχαιῶν Εὐμενέων Ἀχαιῶν
Translation of the Achaean Eumeneans
Reverse design Dionysus and Apollo seated in two wheeled cart drawn by pantheress and goat, right; Dionysus holding long transverse thyrsus, Apollo playing lyre; on goat's back, winged Eros riding, playing double flute
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 10.62 g
Axis 6
Reference BMC 58
Specimens 5 (2 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BMC 58, pl. XXVII.11
2 2     ✸ P: 1130
3 3     Gorny & Mosch 118 (15/10/2002), 1751, under 'Tralles'
4 4     V-ON Leypold II, no. 1539
5 5     Private coll. F. Jarman, Germany