RPC VI, 6804


Image of specimen #2

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/6804 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	VI
Number	6804 (temporary)
Province	Cappadocia
Region	Cappadocia
City	Caesarea
Reign	Severus Alexander
Person (obv.)	Severus Alexander (Augustus)
Issue	ƐΤ Ɛ = 5
Dating	225/6
Obverse inscription	ΑΥ Κ ϹΕΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝ
Edition	Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Σεου(ῆρος) Ἀλέξαν(δρος)
Translation	Emperor Caesar Severus Alexander
Obverse design	radiate and draped bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription	Α ΜΚ Γ ΠΟΝ Κ ΑΡ ΜΗΤΡΟΠ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΙΑ ΔΙϹ ΝΕ ΕΤ Ε
Edition	αʹ μ(εγίστη) κ(αλλίστη) γʹ Πόντ(ου) Κ(αππαδοκίας) Ἀρ(μενίας) μητρόπ(ολις) Καισαρία δὶς νε(ωκόρος) ἔτ(ους) εʹ
Translation	first, greatest, most beautiful of the 3 (eparchies) of Pontus, Cappadocia, Armenia, the metropolis Caesarea, twice neocorate, year 5
Reverse design	inscription in lines
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	22 mm
Average weight	8.52 g
Axis	5, 6, 12
Reference	Ganschow 796
Specimens	6 (3 in the core collections)
Note	The first mention of the second neocorate in the reign: see introduction, and Burrell, Neokoroi, p. 249 type 7. For the formula, see M. Vitale, Eparchie und Koinon in Kleinasien von der ausgehenden Republik bis ins 3. Jh. N. Chr. (Bonn, 2012), pp. 257-9. See also the remarks of T. Ganschow in the Henseler catalogue, vol. 2, pp. 282-3.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	P: 710			9.30			Show
2	2 ✸	B: 1623/1892		22	8.25	5		Show
3	3	B: 18252553	I-B	22	8.34	6	the ticket under the coin suggests that Imhoof read the date as ƐΤ Θ. It must be the coin published by him in RSN VIII (1898), p. 20, no. 68 (as a coin of year 9). Illustrated by Burrell, fig. 196	Show
4	4	Warsaw: 55017		24			cited by Burell, Neokoroi, p. 249, who attributed it to year 6, but it is from the same dies, and what looks like a 6 is a 5 with a die-flaw. Thanks to Andrzej Romanowski for his help.	Show
5	5	Washington: 66.18.238		22	8.55	12	misread as a coin of year 6 (ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛƐΩϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΙΑϹ ΔΙϹ ΝƐ ƐΤ Ϛ) by Marthaler 202a, citing Smithsonian = SM 575f	Show
6	6		Henseler 1200F, ex Dara Antiques Museum 2, 2021, lot 845	22	8.16	12		Show