RPC IV.2, 321 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #43

 

Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 321 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': without personal name but associated through shared dies with coins of the sophist Claudius Proklos, strategos
Dating c. 161–166
Obverse inscription ΖΕΥϹ ΑΚΡΑΙΟϹ (Ζ may be reversed)
Edition Ζεύς Ἀκραῖος
Translation Zeus Akraios
Obverse design head of Zeus Akraios, right
Reverse inscription ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ
Edition Σμυρναίων
Translation of the Smyrneans
Reverse design griffin standing, right, placing left forepaw on wheel
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 4.12 g
Axis 1, 5, 6, 11, 12
Reference Klose VI, Serie C, 60–3, BMC 179–180 and 182–3, Cop 1283–4 and 1296
Specimens 55 (37 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BMC 180
2 2     G: II, 371, no. 140 SNG I, no. 1526
3 3     L: BMC 179
4 4     Vat: 202
5 5     B
6 6     NY
6 6     Münster: M 1139
7 7     P: 2751
8 8     Braunschweig SNG 1068
9 9     C McClean III, 8287, pl. 287.7
10 10     P: 2546 Klose VI, Serie C, 60, pl. 9 (R53)
11 11     Cop: 1276
12 12     O
13 13     G: II, 371, no. 139 SNG I, no. 1527
14 14     O
15 15     O
16 16     Yale: ex PRF
17 17     Gotha
18 18     V: GR 17617
19 19     Cop: 1284
20 20     NY
21 21     Istanbul: 6844
22 22     V: GR 17618 Klose VI, Serie C, 61, pl. 9 (R54)
23 23     A: 1892-93IZ69
24 24     P: 2753
25 25     Vat: 203
26 26     Mu: 186
27 27     C: no number
28 28     B: 1877/820
29 29     L: BMC 182
30 30     O
31 31     B
32 32     B: I-B
33 33     Oslo
34 34     Stockholm
35 35     Mu: 187
36 36     Istanbul: KD 762-1248
37 37     L: BMC 183
38 38     B: alter Bestand
39 39     C: Leake 2445, Asiatic Greece, p. 118.2
40 40     SNG vA 7988
41 41     A: 5392, ex coll. Postolakas
42 42     P: 2752
43 43     ✸ P: 2545 Klose VI, Serie C, 62, pl. 8–9 (V10, R55)
44 44     O
45 45     NY
46 46     Lyon
47 47     P: Delepierre 48
48 48     Cop: 1283
49 49     Oslo Klose VI, Serie C, 63, pl. 9 (R56)
50 50     O
51 51     O
52 52     Boston: 67.878
53 53     V-ON Leypold I, no. 714
54 54     Rio: Inv. 1924.1278 SNG Brasil 1, no. 1247