RPC IX, 571

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IX
Number 571
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Lydia
City Magnesia ad Sipylum
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Trajan Decius (Augustus)
Magistrate Aurelius Artemas, son of Menemachos, grandson of Laianos (strategos)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ [Κ Γ Μ Κ Τ]ΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΔΕΚΙΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Γ(άϊος) Μ(έσσιος) Κ(ύϊντος) Τραϊανὸς Δέκιος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Decius, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΠ ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΑΡΤΕΜΑ ΜΕΝΕΜ ΛΑ[ΙΑΝΟΥ] ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ [ϹΥΠΥΛ]
Edition ἐπ(ὶ) στρ(ατηγοῦ) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Ἀρτέμα Μενεμ(άχου) Λαϊανοῦ Μαγνήτων Συπυλίων()
Translation under strategos Aurelius Artemas, son of Menemachos, grandson of Laianos, of the Magnesians of Sipylus
Reverse design Cybele seated left, holding patera and resting on tympanum
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 44 mm
Average weight 29.42 g
Axis 6
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note See also Scholz, NZ 1910, p. 24, no. 130, 28.00 (not illustrated), for a possible second specimen
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Number Number Museum Bibliography
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