RPC IV.1, 8682 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8682 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Caesar)
Magistrate Dionysos (in office for the sixth time)
Dating c. 147–161, soon after 147
Obverse inscription Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλιος Καῖσαρ
Translation Marcus Aurelius Caesar
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (youthful) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΥ ΤΟ Ϛ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ (with ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ)
Edition ἐπὶ Διονύσου ϛʹ Βυζαντίων
Translation under Dionysos, for the sixth time, of the Byzantines
Reverse design prow, right; (above, large dot)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 5.74 g
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1387–9 and 1391
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)

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