RPC IV.1, 8691 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8691 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Magistrate Divine Faustina II (goddess as honorary official)
Issue Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, co-emperors
Dating 178–180
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝοϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτορ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ (Θ) ΦΑΥϹΤΙΝΗϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ Θ(εᾶς) Φαυστίνης Βυζαντίων
Translation under the goddess Faustina, of the Byzantines
Reverse design torch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Average weight 16.93 g
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1404–5, BMC 65
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: (Fox) Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1404/1, pl. 71 (V60 and R87) = Cat. 151, no. 78
2 2     Prowe III, 221, pl. V
3 3     ✸ L: BMC 65 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1405, pl. 72 (V60 and R88), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
4 4     SNG Evelpidis 923