RPC IV.1, 8681 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8681 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Caesar)
Magistrate Dionysos (in office for the sixth time)
Dating c. 147–161, soon after 147
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΥ ΤΟ Ϛ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ (ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ)
Reverse design prow, left; on top, emperor standing, left, raising right hand, (holding parazonium)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Axis 12
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1386 and 1392
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: (Löbb) Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1386, pl. 70 (V49 and R69)
2 2     A: ex coll. Stamules 202, on reverse, ΒVΖΑΝΤΙΩ{ΝΕ}ΠΙ in ligature and emperor with parazonium, cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin