RPC IV.2, 131 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #14

 

Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 131 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Cyzicus
Region Troas
City Ilium
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Crispina (Augusta)
Issue Crispina
Dating c. 178–182
Obverse inscription ΚΡΙϹΠ(Ε)ΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ
Obverse design draped bust of Crispina (wearing stephane), right
Reverse inscription ΙΛΙΕΩΝ
Reverse design to left, cult statue of Athena of Ilium standing on short decorated column, right, wearing kalathos, holding transverse spear and Palladium; to right, cow suspended from tree, left; in tree, man grasping her horn, slaughtering her with knife
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 1, 6, 7, 12
Reference Bellinger T 198–9, von Fritze, Ilion 85, BMC 67–8, Cop 413
Specimens 24 (12 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.43949 Bellinger T 198
2 2     L: BMC 67
3 3     P: 763 Wa 1167
4 4     Troy Excavations 68a
5 5     B: (Fox) von Fritze, Ilion 85, Beilage 64 (rev.)
6 6     V: GR 27571
7 7     Cop: 413
8 8     Troy Excavations 68b
9 9     L: BMC 68
10 10     P: Delepierre 5
11 11     B: (Löbb)
12 12     B: I-B
13 13     B: (Löbb)
14 14     ✸ Frank Sternberg 11 (20/11/1981), 276 = Auctiones 17 (07/07/1988), 343 = Triton 5 (15/01/2002), 1721
15 15     V-ON Leypold I, no. 481
16 16     C: no number
17 17     Private coll. CGT = CNG Electronic Auction 372 (06/04/2016), 302
18 18     Prowe I, 1281, pl. IX (rev.), perhaps identical with one of the other specimens of this type
19 19     Gorny & Mosch 241 (10/10/2016), 1890
20 20     Winterthur Bloesch 2, no. 2754, ex C.A. Cahn
21 21     Numismatik Naumann 56 (06/08/2017), 340
22 22     Numismatik Naumann 50 (05/02/2017), 340 = Savoca Numismatik 14 (23/04/2017), 446
23 23     Private collection H. I.
24 24     Rome: 80288 Calomino MNR 164