RPC IV.4, 3169

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.4
Number 3169
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Issue Year ΙΑ = 11
Dating AD 170/1
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Marcus Aurelius, right
Reverse inscription L ΙΑ (?)
Edition (ἔτους) ιαʹ
Translation of year 11
Reverse design Isis, wearing basileion, seated, right; on knee, Harpocrates, crowned with skhent, raising hand, (holding lotus-flower); on throne, hawk; before, palm-branch(?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Average weight 21.89 g
Axis 12
Reference D 3474, pl. XVII (rev.), DS 9262
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same pair of dies. 1–3: same obv. die as 3161/1. 1–3: same rev. die as 3168/2.
Note It is hard to distinguish the Α from a Δ in the date. On D 3474 the reading of Δ seems clear but may be misleading. The reverse type is otherwise recorded for year 10 (?) and 11. No other types are recorded for year 14.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.61320
2 2     ✸ A: D 2081 bis /1896/7, IA 473/853
3 3     D 3474, pl. XVII (rev.) = Naville Numismatics 53, 3 Nov. 2019, lot 326 = Naville Numismatics 53, 3 Nov. 2019, lot 326
4 4     DS 9262