RPC IV.3, 8544 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #18

 

Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 8544 (temporary)
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Hierapolis
Reign Antoninus Pius
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': Reign of Antoninus Pius
Obverse inscription ΙΕΡΟΠΟΛ(Ε)ΙΤωΝ
Edition Ἱεροπολειτῶν
Translation of the Hierapolitans
Obverse design laureate-headed and draped bust of Apollo(?), right
Reverse inscription (ΕΤ(ΟΥ(Ϲ))) ΖΝΥ (Ζ may be shaped as reversed Ζ, ΝΥ may be retrograde)
Reverse design lyre; above or in right field, numeral letter A, B or Γ
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 12 mm
Average weight 1.70 g
Axis 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Specimens 19 (13 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1658, reverse legend probably without ƐΤ(ΟΥС)
2 2     B: ex coll. Bonnet
3 3     NY: 1944.100.65380
4 4     V: GR 20985, on reverse, first two letters of date obscure
5 5     V: GR 20986, obverse legend obscure
6 6     C: SNG 5853 Leake 1077, Asiatic Greece, p. 14.6, in Leake under 'Antioch in Syria'
7 7     B: 17698
8 8     NY: 1944.100.65381
9 9     NY: 1944.100.65382
10 10     L: 1980-6-21-6
11 11     L: 1979-11-34-1, on reverse date note entirely certain, probably Γ
12 12     B: I-B, on reverse numeral off flan
13 13     Bern: Righetti 1874
14 14     CNG 22 (02/09/1992), 61 = CNG Electronic Auction 110 (16/03/2005), 141, obverse as 'Faustina II'
15 15     Private coll. CGT
16 16     Private coll. CGT
17 17     B: 18260129, I-B
18 18     ✸ Richard McAlee coll.
19 19     Richard McAlee coll.