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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/8682 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
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) |