RPC VI, 10021 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume VI
Number 10021 (temporary)
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Elagabalus
Person (obv.) Elagabalus (Augustus)
Issue L B = 2
Dating 218/9
Obverse inscription [Α ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΜΑ ΑΥΡ] ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ΕΥϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβής Α(ὐτοκράτωρ) Καῖσαρ Μᾶ(ρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνῖνος Εὐσεβ(ής)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius
Obverse design laureate and draped bust of Elagabalus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription L Β
Edition ἔτους βʹ (ἔτους) βʹ
Translation of year 2
Reverse design Alexandria standing facing, head right, turreted, holding small Sarapis bust in right hand
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 12.00 g
Reference D 4010 corr., E 2908 (2)
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Note Confirmation required. Obversemostly illegible. Keith Emmett has noted that there is a coin of Macrinus, which might provide the prototype, recorded by Dutilh in the Alexandria Museum (E -) with a similar unusual reverse design for LΒ: 'Isis, debout, à droite, portant sur la main droite étendue, le buste de Sérapis' (JIAN 3 (1900), p. 31, no. 2353 (not illustrated) . The type also occurs (facing left) for Severus Alexander.

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Curtis 941
2 2     ✸ D 4100 corr = Naville Numismatics 53, 3 Nov. 2019, lot 347