RPC IV.3, 9736 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 9736 (temporary)
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Trachea
City Pompeiopolis
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus) ; Lucius Verus (Augustus)
Issue Marcus and Verus, co-emperors
Dating 161–169
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤ[ΟΡΕϹ?] [ ]ΛΙΟΝ ΜΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ΚΑΙ Λ ΑΥΡ ΟΥΗΡΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤ[
Obverse design laureate-headed busts of Marcus Aurelius (on left) and Lucius Verus (on right), facing each other, both wearing cuirass and paludamentum
Reverse inscription ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟΠΟΛ[ΕΙΤΩΝ?] ΘΚϹ
Reverse design male figure (Pompey, Marc Antony, Aratos or Dionysus?) standing with foot on uncertain object, facing, head, right, wearing toga, holding sceptre (or thyrsus?) and globe
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 5 (4 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     V: GR 19166
1 1     P: no number, under 'Unidentified', both sides with signs of tooling
2 2     ✸ O: ex Frank L. Kovacs, ex private coll. Marcel Burstein Lindgren I, 1602B
3 3     Lanz 92 (04/06/1999), 680, pl. 28
4 4     C: Leake 8141, Suppl., p. 95.5, reverse tooled