RPC VI, 7157 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume VI
Number 7157 (temporary)
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Mallus
Reign Severus Alexander
Person (obv.) Severus Alexander (Augustus)
Issue Group 2
Obverse inscription IMP CE M AV SEV ALEXANDROS AVG (sic)
Edition Imp(erator) C<a>e(sar) M(arcus) Au(relius) Sev(erus) Alexand<e>r{os} Aug(ustus)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription MALLO COLONIA ALEXA S C FELIX
Reverse design the Emperor standing facing in military dress, head left, holding sceptre and offering statuette of Marsyas to the Tyche of Mallus, standing right, holding cornucopia; to right, Amphilochus standing facing, head right, crowning him with wreath from behind; to left, two oxen, right; sometimes, piglet in the exergue
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 41 mm
Average weight 29.19 g
Axis 5, 6, 10
Reference Levante 1288
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1974,0102.55
2 2     L: 1981,0912.25 Mabbott 2182
3 3     Rome: 113304 Calomino MNR 656
5 5     Hirsch 256, 5 May 2008, lot 588
6 6     Levante 1288 = CNG MBS 69, 8 June 2005, lot 1106
7 7     ✸ Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger 346, 13 Feb. 2019, lot 2790 = Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger 336, 7 Feb. 2018, lot 2574 = Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions 5, 14 May 2012, lot 659
8 8     Lindgren III, 868