RPC IV.3, 8539 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 8539 (temporary)
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Cyrrhus
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤοΚΡΑΤωΡ ΚΕϹΑΡ(sic) ΤΙΤ ΕΛΙ(sic) (ΑΔΡΙ) ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ Ϲ(Β ΕΥ(ϹΕ))
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription ΔΙΟϹ ΚΑΤΑΙΒΑΤΟΥ ΚΥΡΡΗϹΤωΝ and numeral letter Α or Β in r. field or exergue
Reverse design Zeus Kataibates seated on rock, left, holding thunderbolt over eagle and long sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 6, 11, 12
Reference BMC 9–10, Cop 45
Specimens 40 (34 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1628
2 2     P: 1629
3 3     P: coll. Chandon de Briailles 1363, on reverse, eagle obscure
4 4     P: no number, under 'Unidentified'
5 5     ✸ B: alter Bestand
6 6     B: Rauch
7 7     G: III, 134, no. 5 SNG II, no. 2649
8 8     G: III, 134, no. 6 SNG II, no. 2650
9 9     NY: 1944.100.65342
10 10     O
11 11     V: GR 20962, authenticity doubtful: cast
12 12     V: GR 20964
13 13     Frank Sternberg 34 (22/10/1998), 52, pl. V
14 14     Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 12 (16/04/2004), 633, pl. 14, on reverse numeral letter B, but die re-cut from A
15 15     L: BMC 9
16 16     L: BMC 10
17 17     P: 1630
18 18     P: no number, under 'Unidentified'
19 19     B: v. Knobelsdorff
20 20     B: v. Knobelsdorff
21 21     B: (Löbb)
22 22     C: Leake 1573, Asiatic Greece, p. 49.13
23 23     Cop: 45, obverse legend obscure
24 24     G: III, 134, no. 7 SNG II, no. 2651
25 25     NY: 1944.100.65341, broken, 9.08g
26 26     O
27 27     O
28 28     O
29 29     V: GR 20963
30 30     V: GR 20965, authenticity doubtful: cast
31 31     V: GR 27335/166, under 'Uncertain'
32 32     V: GR 39305, under 'Diospolis in Palestine: Samaria'
33 33     C: Lewis 1776, not illustrated
34 34     C: Mossop, worn, attribution to this type not certain
35 35     NY: 1938.104.60 (from Dura excavations, worn, both legends as well as reverse numeral obscure)
36 36     O
37 37     Bern: Righetti 1863
38 38     Freiburg: 12247
39 39     Freiburg: 12248 on reverse, numeral letter Α
40 40     Private coll. Robert Effler, reverse with numeral letter Β