RPC VI, 4399 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume VI
Number 4399 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Thyatira
Region Lydia
City Thyatira
Reign Severus Alexander
Person (obv.) Severus Alexander (Augustus)
Magistrate Gaius Arruntius Antoninus (strategos, of equestrian rank)
Issue Group 2b
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ϹΕ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Σεουῆρος Ἀλέξανδρος Σεβαστός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Σε(ουῆρος) Ἀλέξανδρος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Γ ΑΡΟΥΝ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟΥ ΙΠΠΙΚΟΥ(?) ΘΥΑΤΕΙΡΗΝΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ στρατηγοῦ Γαίου Ἀρουντίου Ἀντωνίνου ἱππικοῦ Θυατειρηνῶν ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Γ(αίου) Ἀρουν(τίου) Ἀντωνίνου ἱππικοῦ Θυατειρηνῶν
Translation under strategos Gaius Arruntius Antoninus, of equestrian rank, of the Thyatirans
Reverse design Amphion stanidng, right, and Zethus staning, left, both wearing a shared cloak, Amphion holding a rope and grasping Dirce by the hair to tie her to the bull, Zethus using both hands to hold the bull
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 45 mm
Average weight 34.85 g
Axis 6
Reference GRPCL 404, Hochard 2592 corr.
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note For a discussion of the reverse type and the sculpture group of Toro Farnese, see H. C. von Mosch, 'Dirke, Thyiaden und der thebanische Dionysos. Zu den Dirkegruppen zwischen Rom und Kleinasien', NACQT 34 ( 2005), pp. 141-80, at 166.

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ V: GR 19646 Mi IV, 172, 990