RPC IV.3, 7698 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 7698 (temporary)
Province Lycia-Pamphylia
Region Pisidia
City Parlais
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Commodus (Augustus)
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating 177–180
Obverse inscription IMP C (or L) AVR COMMODVS (with D shaped as Δ)
Edition Imp(erator) C(aesar) Aur(elius) Commodus
Translation Emperor Caesar Aurelius Commodus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Commodus (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription IVL AVG HA COL PARLA
Edition Iul(ia) Aug(usta) Ha(driana) col(onia) Parla(is)
Translation Julian Augustan Hadrianic colony of Parlais
Reverse design Mên standing, facing, head, right, wearing Phrygian cap, holding long sceptre and pine cone; behind his shoulders, crescent; to right, seated animal (lion?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 21 mm
Average weight 5.41 g
Axis 6
Reference vA Parlais 12(1), GRMK 200, no. 3, NC 1914, 311, no. 35
Specimens 7 (4 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: 18312820, 1928 Bernhard-Imhoof GRMK 200, no. 3 = vA Parlais 12, pl. 1
2 2     O
3 3     P: 80 SNG 1674 (illustrating wrong rev.) = Wa 4792 = W.A. Waddington, RN 1883, 59, no. 3
4 4     Gotha
5 5     L: 1914-9-8-20 NC 1914, 311, no. 35
6 6     vA 8615, reverse legend 'IOL(sic) AVG HA COL PARLA'
7 7     Private coll.