RPC VI, 8219 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume VI
Number 8219 (temporary)
Province Syria Phoenice
Region Phoenicia
City Botrys
Reign Elagabalus
Person (obv.) Elagabalus (Augustus)
Issue ΒΝС = 252
Dating 221/222
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐ(ρήλιος) Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate head of Elagabalus, right
Reverse inscription ΒΟΤΡΥΗΝωΝ ΒΝϹ
Edition Βοτρυηνῶν βνσʹ
Translation of the Botryians, 252
Reverse design front view of temple with six columns with arcuated lintel in the middle, within which Astarte standing, facing, wearing kalathos, holding long sceptre and four globes; in the exergue, central stairway
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Average weight 7.91 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference Sawaya, Botrys 13–6
Specimens 9 (5 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cop: 131 Sawaya, Botrys 5 (under year 249)
2 2     NY: 1948.19.2176 Sawaya, Botrys 13
3 3     NY: 1944.100.70784 Sawaya, Botrys 14
4 4     NY: 1944.100.70785 Sawaya, Botrys 16
5 5     O
6 6     Beirut-AUB: C764 Sawaya, Botrys 15
7 7     ✸ CNG EA 367, 27 Jan. 2016, lot 404
8 8     Rouvier 632.2
9 9     Rouvier 632.3