RPC IV.1, 8683 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8683 (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
Edition Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Καῖσαρ Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος Καῖσαρ
Translation Marcus Aurelius Caesar
Obverse design bare head of Marcus Aurelius (youthful) with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΥ ΤΟ Ϛ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Διονύσου ϛʹ Βυζαντίων ἐπὶ Διονύσου ϛʹ Βυζαντίων
Translation under Dionysos, for the sixth time, of the Byzantines
Reverse design prow, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 5.38 g
Axis 12
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1390
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ O Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1390, pl. 70 (V51 and R 73), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin