RPC IV.2, 3232 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #10

 

Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 3232 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Magistrate Tiberius Claudius Aristeas (strategos)
Dating c. 169–175 (perhaps until AD 180)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙ(οϹ) ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝοϹ
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (long beard with long curls) wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡΑ ΚΛ(ΑΥ) ΑΡΙϹΤΕΟΥ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ Β ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ
Reverse design Satyr seated on cippus, left, wearing nebris; on his right foot, youthful Dionysus dancing, right; beneath Satyr's foot on ground, pedum
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference Weisser 980
Specimens 13 (8 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: 18200621, Löbb. von Fritze, Pergamon, p. 62, pl. V.4 (rev.) = Weisser 980, pl. 16
2 2     B: 18265979, 1900 Imhoof-Blumer
3 3     B: 18265981, Fox
4 4     V: GR 1274 (Medaillon)
5 5     V: GR 1275 (Medaillon)
6 6     P: 1274 SNG 2123
7 7     P: 1275 SNG 2124, reverse legend mostly obscure
8 8     Boston: 63.1245 C.C. Vermeule, Divinities and Mythological Scenes in Greek Imperial Art (Cambridge [MA], 1983), p. 30 and 38, no. 23, pl. 23 (enlarged)
9 9     P: Delepierre 52 SNG 2125, worn
10 10     ✸ Lanz 154 (11/06/2012), 356
11 11     Winterthur Bloesch 2, no. 2666, ex coll. F. Imhoof-Blumer, reverse legend obscure
12 12     Heidelberger Münzhandlung Herbert Grün 53 (20/05/2010), 198, legends mostly obscure
13 13     E.J. Waddell 2 (12/09/1987), 343 = M & M Numismatics 1 (01/04/1997), 187 (non vidi) = Fritz Rudolf Künker 288 (13/03/2017), 618