RPC IV.2, 3222 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3222 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Magistrate Tiberius Claudius Aristeas (strategos)
Dating c. 169–175 (perhaps until AD 180)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙ(οϹ) ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝοϹ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (long beard with long curls) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ Τ ΚΛ ΑΡΙϹΤΕΑ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ στρα(τηγοῦ) Τ(ιβερίου) Κλ(αυδίου) Ἀριστέα Περγαμηνῶν βʹ νεωκόρων
Translation under strategos Tiberius Claudius Aristeas, of the Pergamenes, twice neocorate
Reverse design emperor (Marcus Aurelius) on horseback, left, raising right arm; to left, bound captive seated, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Average weight 24.12 g
Reference Weisser 970, BMC 289
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Auction Athena [Germany] 2 (1988), 342 (non vidi) = Peus 366 (29/10/2000), coll. Marcel Burstein, 593, pl. 29 = Weisser 970, pl. 15, with traces of silver cover
2 2     ✸ L: BMC 289, pl. XXIX.6 (rev.) von Fritze, Pergamon, p. 72, pl. VII.6 (rev.), obverse legend tooled or die re-cut