RPC IV.1, 8690 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8690 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Magistrate Memmios Marcus (heros for the second time)
Dating c. 175
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝοϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΜΕΜ(ΜΙ) ΜΑΡΚοΥ ΗΡΩοϹ ΤΟ Β ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Μεμμίου Μάρκου ἥρωος τὸ βʹ Βυζαντίων ἐπὶ Μεμμί(ου) Μάρκου ἥρωος τὸ βʹ Βυζαντίων
Translation under Memmios Markos, hero, for the second time, of the Byzantines
Reverse design two torches; between, kalathos with two poppies and two ears of corn
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Average weight 17.16 g
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1402–3
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: I-B Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1402/1, pl. 71 (V59 and R85), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
2 2     N: Fiorelli 6356
3 3     Münzhandlung Basel 1 (1934), 1339, pl. 32
4 4     V: GR 8497 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1403/2, pl. 71 (V59 and R86)