RPC VI, 10348 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #5

 

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 ϹƐ ƐΡƐΝ ϹΑΛΛ ΒΑΡ ΟΡΒΙΑΝΗ ϹƐ(Β)
Obverse design draped bust of Orbiana wearing stephane, r.
Reverse inscription L Ϛ
Reverse design eagle standing l., head r., holding wreath in beak
Metal Debased silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 11, 12
Reference D 4452, M 3008, Geissen 2499, E 3267 (6) b-c
Specimens 13 (4 in the core collections)

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