RPC IV.1, 5617 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 5617 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Nicomedia
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus) ; Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Marcus and Verus, co-emperors
Dating 161–169
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ Λ ΑΥΡ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΕϹ
Edition Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος Λούκιος Αὐρήλιος Οὐῆρος Αὐτοκράτορες Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνῖνος Λ(ούκιος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Οὐῆρος Αὐτοκράτορες
Translation Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Aurelius Verus, Emperors
Obverse design bare-headed busts of Marcus Aurelius (on left) and Lucius Verus (on right), facing each other; both wearing cuirass and paludamentum
Reverse inscription ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ ΝΕΩΚΟ ΝΙΚΟΜ
Edition ὁμόνοια νεωκόρου Νικομηδείας ὁμόνοια νεωκό(ρου) Νικομ(ηδείας)
Translation concord of the neocorate Nicomedia
Reverse design temple with four columns enclosing statue of Homonoia seated, left, holding patera and long sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Average weight 18.10 g
Axis 6
Reference Rec 112, Cop 561
Specimens 11 (7 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 1321 Rec 112, pl. XCI.28
2 2     L: 1979-1-1-1416 (ex private coll. H. von Aulock, not catalogued in vA)
3 3     B: (Fox)
4 4     V: GR 15780
5 5     V: GR 15781
6 6     St Petersburg
7 7     NY: 1944.100.42294
8 8     Cop: 561
9 9     Dorotheum Electronic Auction 20/11/2013, 117, coin placed in centre of large bronze medallion of 78mm diameter, 367g
10 10     Private coll.
11 11     CGT coll.