RPC VI, 7083 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume VI
Number 7083 (temporary)
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Tarsus
Reign Severus Alexander
Person (obv.) Severus Alexander (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ Κ Μ Α ϹΕΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟϹ ϹΕΒ Π Π
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Α(ὐρήλιος) Σεου(ῆρος) Ἀλέξανδρος Σεβ(αστὸς) Π(ατὴρ) Π(ατρίδος)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus Father of the Fatherland
Obverse design bust of Severus Alexander, right, wearing crown and garments of Demiourgos, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡ ΑΝ ΕϹΟ ΑΔ ΜΗΤ ΤΑΡϹΟΥ Α Μ Κ Γ Β Π
Edition Ἀλεξανδρ(ιανῆς) Ἀν(τωνινιανῆς) {ε}Σ<ε>ο(υηριανῆς) Ἁδ(ριανῆς) μητ(ρόπολις) Ταρσοῦ αʹ μ(εγίστης) κ(αλλίστης) γʹ βʹ π(ατρῷος)
Translation the ancestral metropolis of Alexandrian Antonine Severan Hadrianic Tarsus, the first, greatest, most beautiful, of the 3 (eparchies), twice (neocorate)
Reverse design Athena standing, left, holding spear with shield and patera over lighted altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 38 mm
Average weight 23.64 g
Axis 12
Reference BMC 212
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Note ƐϹΟ presumably for ϹƐΟ

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BK,1102 BMC 212
2 2     CNG 328, June 2014, 356
3 3     CGT coll.
4 4     ✸ CNG 328, June 2014, 356 = Leu EA 14, 12 Dec. 2020, lot 1045