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 (AD 162/163)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ(Τ) ΚΑΙϹ Λ ΑΥΡ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Lucius Verus wearing cuirass, right
Reverse inscription ΑΔΡ ΑΜΑϹ ΝΕΩΚ Κ ΜΗΤ Κ ΠΡΩ ΠΟΝ ΕΤ ΡΞΕ
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
Axis 6
Reference Rec 26 and 26a, Dalaison 127-129
Specimens 10 (3 in the core collections)

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