RPC IV.3, 5295 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 5295 (temporary)
Province Cappadocia
Region Pontus
City Amasea
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Year 165
Dating AD 162/3
Obverse inscription ΑΥ(Τ) ΚΑΙϹ Λ ΑΥΡ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Οὐῆρος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Lucius Verus wearing cuirass, right
Reverse inscription ΑΔΡ ΑΜΑϹ ΝΕΩΚ Κ ΜΗΤ Κ ΠΡΩ ΠΟΝ ΕΤ ΡΞΕ
Edition Ἁδρ(ιανῆ) Ἀμάσ(εια) νεωκ(όρος) μητ(ροπόλις) πρώ(τη) Πόν(του) ἔτ(ους) ρξεʹ
Translation Hadrianic Amasea, neocorate and metropolis and first city of Pontus, year 165
Reverse design to left, Ares standing, facing, head, right, wearing military dress, holding spear, resting hand on shield; to right, nude Aphrodite standing, left, covering her breasts with right hand and pudenda with left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 23.21 g
Axis 6
Reference Rec 26 and 26a, Dalaison 127–129
Specimens 10 (3 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 97 Wa 12 = Rec 26, pl. IV.20 = Dalaison 129f and Pl. 13
2 2     St Petersburg Dalaison 128e
3 3     L: 1921-11-20-5 Weber = Dalaison 128d
4 4     Lindgren I, 12 = Peus 366, M. Burtstein coll., 25 Oct. 2000, lot 486, pl. 23
5 5     Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 12, 11, Apr. 2003, lot 149 = Dalaison 129i
6 6     V-ON Leypold I, no. 9 = Dalaison 129d
7 7     Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 13, 9 Oct. 2003, coll. J.-P. Righetti, lot 214
8 8     C: 1975/291
9 9     Private coll., Baton Rouge
10 10     Naumann 116, 1 May 2022, lot 582