RPC IV.1, 8213 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8213 (temporary)
Province Achaea
Region Attica
City Athens
Reign Uncertain
Issue Agora Period VB
Dating c. 120's – 140's (or 150's)
Obverse inscription
Obverse design bust of Athena wearing necklace and aegis, right; (in laurel wreath)
Reverse inscription ΑΘΗΝΑΙωΝ (Νs may be shaped as И, ω may be inverted)
Edition Ἀθηναίων
Translation of the Athenians
Reverse design bucranium with long fillet on each horn
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Average weight 8.84 g
Axis 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
Reference Kroll, Agora 185, Svoronos, Athens 99.1–5
Specimens 16 (12 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     V: GR 13032 Svoronos, Athens 99.1, ω of reverse legend inverted
2 2     Ex private coll. J. Hirsch = Svoronos, Athens 99.2
3 3     B: (Löbb) Svoronos, Athens 99.3
4 4     Kroll, Agora 185a, pl. 16
5 5     Ex private coll. Earle Fox = Svoronos, Athens 99.4
6 6     ✸ P: 1125
7 7     L: 1920-8-5-596, Ns of reverse legend reversed
8 8     L: 1929-5-15-246, reverse legend obscure
9 9     B: v. Knobelsdorff
10 10     B: Graf Prokesch-Osten, reverse legend ΑΘΗΝΑΙΝω(sic)
11 11     B: Löbb, reverse legend ΑΘΗΝΑΙΝω(sic)
12 12     B: Löbb, reverse legend ΑΘΗΝΑΙΝω(sic)
13 13     B: no number, reverse legend mostly obscure
14 14     NY: 1944.100.26091, reverse legend obscure
15 15     G: II, 80, no. 266 SNG I, no. 535
16 16     Boston: 65.737