RPC IX, 575

 

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Coin type
Volume IX
Number 575
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Lydia
City Magnesia ad Sipylum
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Herennia Etruscilla (Augusta)
Magistrate Aurelius Artemas, son of Menemachos, grandson of Laianos (strategos)
Obverse inscription ΕΡΕΝ ΕΤΡΟΥϹΚΙΛΛΑ
Nominative Herennia Etruscilla
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Etruscilla, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠ ϹΤ(Ρ) ΑΡΤΕΜΑ ΜΑΓΝΗΤ(ΩΝ) ϹΙΠΥ(Λ)
Reverse design temple with four columns enclosing statue of Cybele wearing kalathos standing left, holding patera and tympanum, between two lions seated beside her
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Axis 5, 6, 7
Reference BMC 90
Specimens 18 (13 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 8, 11: same pair of dies. 3, 12–13: same pair of dies. 5, 16: same pair of dies. 7, 10, 14: same pair of dies. 1–16: same obv. die as 576/1–3.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1880,0604.21 BMC 90
2 2     L: 1961,0301.326
3 3     P: 1604
4 4     P: 716
5 5     P: 717
6 6     B
7 7     B: I-B
8 8     B: Löbb.
9 9     ✸ C
10 10     C: Lewis 1434
11 11     Cop SNG 272
12 12     Mu SNG 293
13 13     O
14 14     Winterthur: 3799
15 15     V-ON Leypold 1050
16 16     M&M GmbH 15, 21 Oct. 2004, lot 779 (Righetti)
17 17     CGT coll.
18 18     CGT coll.