RPC V.2, — (unassigned; ID 260)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.2
Number — (unassigned; ID 260)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Lesbus
City Mytilene
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Magistrate Aurelius Apelles II, grandson of Menemachos (strategos)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤ Κ ΜΑΡΚΟϹ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτ(ωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μᾶρκος Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front, with gorgoneion on cuirass
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΑΠΕΛΛΟΥ Β ΜΕΝΕΜΑΧΟΥ, ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΑΙΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Ἀπέλλου(ς) βʹ Μενεμάχου Μυτιληναίων
Translation under strategos Apelles II, grandson of Menemachos, of the Mytileneans
Reverse design Tyche of Mytilene seated left, holding patera and Dionysiac term
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 45 mm
Average weight 43.45 g
Axis 6
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
— —     ✸ P: 368
— —     B: 18222260, Löbb.
— —     IMJ: 1147