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[
Edition Αὐτοκράτορες [---]λιον Μᾶρ(κος) Ἀντωνεῖνος καὶ Λ(ουκίος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Οὐῆρος Σεβαστ[---]
Translation Emperors [---]lion Marcus Antoninus and Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus [---]
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
Edition Πομπηιοπολειτῶν θκσʹ
Translation of the Pompeiopolitans, 229
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
Average weight 23.48 g
Axis 12
Specimens 5 (4 in the core collections)
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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