RPC V.2, — (unassigned; ID 1498)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.2
Number — (unassigned; ID 1498)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Magistrate Aurelius Charidemos (strategos)
Obverse inscription Α Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Α(ὐτοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ ΑϹΙΑϹ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ ΤΩΝ ϹΕΒΑ ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑΥΡ ΧΑΡΙΔΗΜΟΥ
Edition Σμυρναίων πρώτων Ἀσίας γʹ νεωκόρων τῶν Σεβα(στῶν) ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Χαριδήμου
Translation of the Smyrnaeans, first in Asia, thrice neocorate of the Augusti, under strategos Aurelius Charidemos
Reverse design three temples with four columns side by side, each one surmounted by a wreath; on the left temple, ΤΙ on the pediment, enclosing statue of Tiberius standing right; in the center temple, ΡΩ on the pediment enclosing statue of Roma seated left; on the right temple, ΑΔ on the pediment, enclosing statue of Hadrian standing left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 45 mm
Average weight 52.36 g
Axis 6
Reference BMC 404; Klose LIX 11–13
Specimens 12 (7 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    L BMC 404
    L: 1979,0101.1789 SNG vA 2220
    P: 2702A
    P: 2703A
    B: 18222638, 1873 Fox
    G MacDonald 242 = SNG 1583
    ✸ NY: 1944.100.47075
    Aufhaüser 10, 5 Oct. 1993, lot 467
    Hirsch 187, 19 Sept. 1995, lot 1441
    Lanz 52, 14 May 1990, lot 565 = Gorny & Mosch 50, 24 Sept. 1990, lot 346a
    Peuss 386, 26 April 2006, lot 799
    Triton 3, 30 Nov. 1999, lot 769