RPC IV.3, 25097 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 25097 (temporary)
Province Cappadocia
Region Pontus
City Amasea
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Issue Year 164 (AD 161/162)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΑΔΡ ΑΜΑϹ ΝΕΩΚ Κ ΜΗΤ Κ ΠΡΩ ΠΟΝ ΕΤ ΡΞΔ
Edition Ἁδρ(ιανὴ) Ἀμάσ(εια) νεωκ(όρος) καὶ μητ(ρόπολις) καὶ πρώ(τη) Πόν(του) ἔτ(ους) ρξδʹ
Translation Hadrianic Amasea, neocorate and metropolis and first city of Pontus, of year 164
Reverse design to left, Ares standing, facing, head, right, wearing military dress, holding spear, resting hand on shield; to right, nude Aphrodite standing, left, covering her breasts with right hand and pudenda with left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Average weight 23.03 g
Axis 6
Reference Rec 18, GM 560, no. 3, Dalaison 69
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B GM 560, no. 3, pl. II.28 = Dalaison 69b
4 4     CNG 51, 15 Sept. 1999, lot 850 = Dalaison 69e
5 5     Peus 366, coll. Marcel Burstein, 25 Oct. 2000, lot 482, pl. 23 = Dalaison 69f and Pl. 7
6 6     ✸ Pecunem Gitbud & Naumann 30, 5 Apr. 2015, lot 300 (ex Sternberg XIII, Nov. 1983, lot 709) = Dalaison 69g