RPC IV.1, 3694 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3694 (temporary)
Province Northern Black Sea
Region Sarmatia
City Olbia
Reign Commodus
Magistrate Ka— (archon for the fourth time)
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': Reign of Commodus
Obverse inscription ] Το Δ
Edition [---] τὸ δʹ
Translation [---] for the fourth time
Obverse design lyre
Reverse inscription Α (in r. field) οΛΒΙοΠοΛΙ
Edition αʹ Ὀλβιοπολι(τῶν)
Translation 1, of the Olbiopolitans
Reverse design nude Apollo standing, facing, head, left, holding uncertain object (bow or laurel-branch), resting arm on column
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 17 mm
Average weight 4.27 g
Axis 6
Reference Zograph, pp. 220–1, n. 148(D)
Specimens 4 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     AMNG, pl. XI.20
2 2     P: 774
3 3     V: GR 7521, broken, 2.94g
4 4     ✸ B: v. Gansauge 1873 A. v. Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I (Berlin, 1888), 28, no. 135