RPC VI, 30560 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume VI
Number 30560 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Paphlagonia
City Amastris
Reign Elagabalus
Person (obv.) Elagabalus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Elagabalus (?), right, with drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΑΜΑϹΤΡΙΑΝΩΝ
Reverse design Nemesis standing facing, looking left, holding bridle and staff; at her feet, griffin, left, placing paw on wheel
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 7, 12
Reference Rec 149
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
Note The portrait is unlike others of Caracalla, and more like  https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/87041 . As coins for Elagabalus (as opposed to Julia Maesa and perhaps Alexander Caesar) are not otherwise attested, they have both been assigned to Elagabalus, although the absence of a value mark is surprising.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    ✸ P: 591 (B 1031) Rec 149 and Pl. XXI, 9, SNG 7, no 143
    O: Milne 1925