RPC IV.3, 5298 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 5298 (temporary)
Province Cappadocia
Region Pontus
City Amasea
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year 157 (AD 154/155)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΔΡΙ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription ΑΜΑϹΙΑϹ ΤΗϹ ΜΗΤΡοΠοΛΕΩϹ Ε ΡΝΖ
Reverse design funeral pyre; to left, tree
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference Rec 12 corr., 14 and 14a corr., Dalaison Amaseia 59–63
Specimens 10 (6 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 842 (ex Grand Duc coll.) Dalaison 59g and Pl. 6
2 2     P: 90, reverse legend perhaps with ... ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛƐΩ ... only, perhaps tooled Dalaison 60b and Pl. 6
3 3     ✸ L: 1983-1-14-1 Dalaison 62a and Pl. 6
4 4     C: Leake 1006, Asiatic Greece, p. 8.3 Rec 12, pl. IV.14 = Dalaison 59c
5 5     NY: 1998.18.28 Lindgren III, A133a = Dalaison 59o
6 6     B: B-I Dalaison 60a
7 7     vA 21, on reverse, era as year '155' = Dalaison 59q
8 8     Bern: Righetti 541 = Dalaison 59b
9 9     V-ON Leypold I, no. 3, obverse legend obscure = Dalaison 59i
10 10     G. Hirsch 224, 20 Nov. 2002, lot 621, pl. 22 = Dalaison 59k