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Image of specimen #43 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/321 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
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 | 4.11 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 | 56 (37 in the core collections) |