RPC VI, 504 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #7

 

Coin type
Volume VI
Number 504 (temporary)
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Philippopolis
Reign Elagabalus
Person (obv.) Elagabalus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡΗΛ(ΙΟϹ) ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Obverse design radiate and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΚΕΝΔΡΕΙϹΕΙΑ ΠΥΘΙΑ ΕΝ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΙ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩ
Reverse design prize table holding agonistic crown with five apples (or two palm branches); below, jug (with or without one or two palm branches); (to right, palm branch below table)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Axis 6, 7
Reference Varbanov, Philippopolis XVII.10
Specimens 20 (3 in the core collections)
Note ΠΥΘΙΑ is sometimes inscribed on the crown

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1351
2 2     B: 18241021, 1906 Löbbecke
3 3     G SNG 826
4 4     Bern: N/82.306 SNG Schweiz 306
5 5     Baldwin's Auctions Ltd Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals M&M Numismatics Ltd The New York Sale IX, 13 Jan. 2005, lot 138
6 6     CNG 100, 7 Oct. 2015, lot 1709 ex Numismatica Genevensis 8, 24 Nov. 2014, lot 116 ex J.J Grano coll. ex NGSA III (2004), lot 148
7 7     ✸ CNG 321, 26 Feb. 2014, lot 294
8 8     CNG 53, 15 March 2000, lot 1050
9 9     CNG 88, 14 Sept. 2011, lot 778
10 10     Gorny & Mosch EA 282, 14 Oct. 2021, lot 3493
11 11     Hirsch 317, 18 Feb. 2016, lot 2273
12 12     Lanz 123, 30 May 2005, lot 714
13 13     Nomos obolos 19, 8 May 2021, lot 514
14 14     Nomos obolos 9, 21 Oct. 2014, lot 279
15 15     Numismatik Naumann 61, 7 Jan. 2018, lot 331
16 16     Roma Numismatics EA 44, 3 March 2018, lot 459 ex Roma Numismatics EA 20, 29 Aug. 2015, lot 456
17 17     Varbanov 3, 1652
18 18     Varbanov 3, 1653
19 19     VAuctions Pars Coins Sale 6, 20 April 2020, lot 222
20 20     Sofia: 7375