RPC VI, 7740 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume VI
Number 7740 (temporary)
Province Mesopotamia
Region Mesopotamia
City Edessa
Reign Elagabalus
Person (obv.) Elagabalus (Augustus)
Issue Undated bronze coinage
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙΝΟΝ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτορα) Κ(αίσαρα) Ἀντωνεῖνον
Translation for Emperor Caesar Antoninus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus, right, seen from front; to right, uncertain object
Reverse inscription ΜΑΡ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩ(?) ΕΔΕϹϹΑ
Edition Μαρ(κία) Αὐρ(ηλία) Ἀντω(νινιανὴ) Ἔδεσσα
Translation Marcia Aurelia Antoniniana Edessa
Reverse design Tyche of the City seated on rock, left, holding corn ears; below, river god swimming, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 14.23 g
Axis 7, 12
Specimens 3 (3 in the core collections)
Note E, Dandrow, ''An Unpublished ‘Medallion’ of Elagabalus from Edessa in Osrhoene: Nergal and Syro-Mesopotamian Religious Continuity?', Koinon 4, 2021, pp. 106-27, identifies the object on the obverse as 'the lion-head scimitar of Nergal, god of war, disease, and lord of the underworld'.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B1900
2 2     ✸ O
3 3     P Chandon 1324