RPC VI, 10485


Image of specimen #4

Coin type
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Volume	VI
Number	10485 (temporary)
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Severus Alexander
Person (obv.)	Julia Mamaea (Augusta)
Issue	L I = 10
Dating	230/1
Obverse inscription	ΙΟΥ ΜΑΜΑΙΑ ϹΕΒ ΜΗΤ ϹΕΒ Κ ϹΤΡΑ
Edition	Ἰου(λία) Μαμαία Σεβ(αστὴ) μήτ(ηρ) Σεβ(αστοῦ) κ(αὶ) στρα(τοπέδων)
Translation	Julia Mamaea Augusta, mother of Augustus and of the camps
Obverse design	draped bust of Julia Mamaea wearing stephane, right
Reverse inscription	L Ι
Edition	(ἔτους) ιʹ
Translation	of year 10
Reverse design	Helios and Selene, jugate busts right; Helios is radiate; Selene wears crescent.; in front, palm branch
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	32 mm
Average weight	20.97 g
Axis	1, 12
Reference	M 3038, E 3248 (10) a
Specimens	10 (5 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	P: 8485048	FG 3016	34	25.88			Show
2	2	P: AA.GR.15339			22.72		'Maesa'	Show
3	3	C: 861-1950		30	22.32		cast forgery	Show
4	4 ✸	NY: 1944.100.64783		32	14.50	12		Show
5	5	O: HCR33832	M 3038	31	20.98	1		Show
6	6	Braunschweig: 1725			21.20	12	'ΜΑΙΜΑΙΑ (sic)'	Show
7	7	Gotha: 599		31	21.40	12		Show
8	8	Milan: 1547		32	22.67	1		Show
9	9	Venice-MC: 69/4						Show
10	10		B. Rémy, Grenoble. Bibliothèque Municipale d'Étude et d'Information. Catalogue des monnaies. 1. Monnaies Grecques (Milan, 1996), no. 46 ('tetradrachm')	33	17.05		Mme. Marie-Françoise Bois-Delatte has kindly checked the original inventory, which gives the diameter ('35-31'mm and the weight (1705), thereby showing that it is a drachm, not a tetradrachm.	Show