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Image of specimen #1 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/4098 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | VI |
Number | 4098 (temporary) |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Adramyteum |
Region | Troas |
City | Assus |
Reign | Severus Alexander |
Person (obv.) | Severus Alexander (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Aurelius Metronax (strategos) |
Obverse inscription | ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥ ϹΕ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ |
Edition | Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐ(ρήλιος) Σε(ουῆρος) Ἀλέξανδρος |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander |
Obverse design | laureate bust of Severus Alexander, right,wearing cuirass with Gorgoneion(?), seen from front |
Reverse inscription | ΕΠ ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΜΗΤΡΩΝΑΚΤΟϹ ΑϹϹΙΩΝ |
Edition | ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Μητρωνάκτος Ἀσσίων |
Translation | under strategos Aurelius Metronax of the Assians |
Reverse design | Demeter standing, right, holding basket with ears of corn |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 39 mm |
Average weight | 30.10 g |
Axis | 6 |
Reference | Mi II,524,65 |
Specimens | 2 (1 in the core collections) |