RPC IV.2, 8486 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #8

 

Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 8486 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Miletus
Region Ionia
City Magnesia ad Maeandrum
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': Probably Marcus and Verus, co-emperors
Dating 161–169
Obverse inscription ϹΑΡΑΠΙϹ
Obverse design draped bust of Sarapis (head assimilated to portrait of Marcus Aurelius?) wearing kalathos, right
Reverse inscription ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ
Reverse design Isis standing, facing, wearing lotus, holding sistrum and situla
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Axis 6, 7
Reference Schultz 518
Specimens 8 (5 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.49294, under 'Magnesia ad Sipylum'
3 3     G: 348, no. 13, pl. 51.5 SNG 1853
4 4     vA 2046
5 5     B: B-I
6 6     C: Lewis 1492
7 7     B: (Löbb) Schultz 518.1, pl. 34 (obv.), pl. 35 (rev.)
8 8     ✸ G. Hirsch 245 (04/05/2006), 175, ex PRF
9 9     Hoffmann 123 (1882), coll. Bompois, 1513