RPC IV.2, 886 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 886 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Halicarnassus
Region Caria
City Cos
Reign Antoninus Pius
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': Reign of Antoninus Pius
Dating c. 138–161
Obverse inscription ΙΠ
Edition Ἱπ(ποκράτης)
Translation Hippocrates
Obverse design bare head of Hippokrates the Physician (bearded), right; to right, serpent-staff
Reverse inscription ΚΩΙΩΝ
Edition Κωίων
Translation of the Coans
Reverse design serpent-staff
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 15 mm
Average weight 2.55 g
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference BMC 216, F. Bürchner, ZfN 9 (1882), pp. 124–5
Specimens 12 (9 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: BMC 216, pl. XXXIII.7 Schefold, Bildnisse, pp. 172–3, no. 24 (obv.) and p. 221
2 2     L: 1961-3-1-351
3 3     Weber 6667
4 4     P: 1273
5 5     P: 1274
6 6     O
7 7     B: I-B F. Imhoof-Blumer, Portraitköpfe auf antiken Münzen (1885), p. 68, p. 89, pl. VIII.30 (obv.)
8 8     P: Duplicates
9 9     P: Duplicates
10 10     V: GR 18534
11 11     Tübingen SNG 3531, reverse worn, found 1903/4 during Asklepieion excavations at Cos
12 12     Winterthur Bloesch 2, no. 3627