RPC VI, 10348 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume VI
Number 10348 (temporary)
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Severus Alexander
Person (obv.) Orbiana (Augusta)
Issue L Ϛ = 6
Dating 226/7
Obverse inscription ΓΝ ϹΕ ΕΡΕΝ ϹΑΛΛ ΒΑΡ ΟΡΒΙΑΝΗ ϹΕ(Β)
Edition Γν(αία) Σε(ία) Ἑρέν(νια) Σαλλ(ουστία) Βάρ(βια) Ὀρβιανὴ Σεβ(αστή)
Translation Gnaea Seia Herennia Sallustia Barbia Orbiana Augusta
Obverse design draped bust of Orbiana wearing stephane, right
Reverse inscription L Ϛ
Edition (ἔτους) ϛʹ
Translation of year 6
Reverse design eagle standing left, head right, holding wreath in beak
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 12.42 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 4452, M 3008, Geissen 2499, E 3267 (6) b-c
Specimens 13 (4 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 1720
2 2     P: 8485037 FG 3005
3 3     NY: 1944.100.64711
4 4     O: HCR27495 M 3008
5 5     ✸ A: 3798 Demetrio 2540
6 6     Cologne Geissen 2499
7 7     Vat: 1086
8 8 –10     Armenian cemetery hoard (E. Breccia, Bull. Soc. Arch. Alex. 17 (1919), pp. 230–51) nos 947–9
11 11 –12     D 4452, DS 10017
12 12     CNG 111, 29 May 2019, lot 591