RPC IV.3, 6369 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 6369 (temporary)
Province Syria Palaestina
Region Judaea
City Raphia
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus) ; Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating 177–180
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ Κο[Μ]ΟΔΟϹ [Ϲ] (?)
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Ἀντωνῖνος Κόμοδος Σ(εβαστός)
Translation Emperor Antoninus Commodus Augustus
Obverse design laureate-headed busts of Marcus Aurelius (on left) and Commodus (on right, youthful), facing each other, both wearing cuirass and paludamentum
Reverse inscription ΡΑΦΙΑ ΖΛϹ (Ζ reversed)
Edition Ῥαφία ζλσʹ
Translation Raphia, 237
Reverse design turreted Tyche standing, facing, head, left, holding infant Dionysus with grapes and cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 17.50 g
Axis 12
Reference Meshorer, Raphia 2 corr., Price, Raphia 2
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     J-MJA: 3484 Meshorer, Raphia 2, pl. III = Price, Raphia 2, pl. 17
2 2     ✸ B: Rauch A. v. Rauch, Mittheilungen der Numismatischen Gesellschaft in Berlin I (1846), p. 26, pl. II.22