RPC VI, 8208


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/8208 json ttl rdf xml
Volume	VI
Number	8208 (temporary)
Province	Syria Phoenice
Region	Phoenicia
City	Aradus
Reign	Elagabalus
Person (obv.)	Elagabalus (Augustus)
Issue	ΖΟΥ = 477
Dating	218/219
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ
Obverse design	radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription	ΑΡΑΔΙωΝ [Ε Ζ(retrograde)ΟΥ]
Reverse design	cypress tree between lion, right, and bull, left, confronted; in the background, standard shaped as a hand behind the bull, vexillum behind the lion; over lion's head, crescent
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	26 mm
Axis	1
Specimens	1 (1 in the core collections)
Note	date not clear

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			O		25.7		1	the portrait on this die is completely different from the other ones; the style resembles that of portraits adopted at Caesarea ad Libanum in year 531 of thee local era (AD 219/220), so it is possible that the engraver who cut this die worked on the coinage of the colony the following year	Show