RPC VI, 8256 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume VI
Number 8256 (temporary)
Province Syria Phoenice
Region Phoenicia
City Orthosia
Reign Elagabalus
Person (obv.) Elagabalus (Augustus)
Issue ΓΛΦ = 533
Dating 221/222
Obverse inscription ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐ(ρήλιος) Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΟΡΘΩϹΕΩΝ ΓΛΦ
Edition Ὀρθωσέων γλφʹ Ὀρθωσέων γλφʹ
Translation of the Orthosians, 533
Reverse design Baal of Orthosia standing on two winged lions with horns
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 5.45 g
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier 881
Specimens 8 (4 in the core collections)
Note Rouvier describes it as Dionysus Pogon driving biga of winged panthers
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: Y28455.99
2 2     P: 1969.872
3 3     P: B1971 Rouvier 1757.1 (under Tripolis)
4 4     NY: 1944.100.71180
5 5     CGT coll. = Pecunem 14, 2 Mar. 2014, lot 518
6 6     Rouvier 1757.2 = Mi V, 407, 462
7 7     Rouvier 881
8 8     Sol XLVI, 18 Oct. 2025, lot 175