RPC IV.1, 5045 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 5045 (temporary)
Province Macedonia
Region Thessaly
City Magnesia
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΚΑΙ[ϹΑΡ] ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝοϹ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΖΕΥϹ ΑΚΡΑΙΟϹ ΜΑΓΝΗΤωΝ
Reverse design nude Zeus Akraios standing, right, holding long sceptre and thunderbolt
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 6
Reference KM 79, no. 27 corr.
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: 1921-5-20-92 E. Rogers, The Copper Coinage of Thessaly (1932), pp. 116–17, no. 366, fig. 188 = Weber 6010, under 'Magnesia ad Maeandrum' = KM 79, no. 27 , under 'Magnesia ad Maeandrum'