RPC IV.1, 3905 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3905 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Magistrate Demosthenes
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating c. 177
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΟϹΘΕΝΟΥϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Δημοσθένους Βυζαντίων ἐπὶ Δημοσθένους Βυζαντίων
Translation under Demosthenes, of the Byzantines
Reverse design two torches; between, kalathos containing two two poppies and two ears of corn
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Average weight 17.68 g
Axis 1, 7
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1408–9
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 396 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1408, pl. 72 (V62 and R90), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
2 2     NY: 1944.100.15642 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1409, pl. 72 (V63 and R91)