RPC IV.2, 316 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #29

 

Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 316 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': without personal name but associated through shared dies with coins of the sophist Kl. Proklos, strategos
Dating c. 161–166
Obverse inscription ΖΕΥϹ ΑΚΡΑΙΟϹ (Ζ may be reversed)
Obverse design head of Zeus Akraios (with traces of drapery), right
Reverse inscription ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ
Reverse design eagle standing on line, facing, head, right, spreading wings, holding wreath in beak
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Axis 4, 5, 6, 7
Reference Klose VI, Serie C, 40–44, BMC 167, Cop 1286–7–8
Specimens 36 (24 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
2 2     NY
3 3     V: GR 17614 Klose VI, Serie C, 41, pl. 8 (R34)
4 4     Cop: 1286
5 5     G: II, 370, no. 130 SNG I, no. 1524
6 6     P: 2735
7 7     Dunedin, Catalogue Otago Museum 844 (non vidi)
8 8     B: I-B
9 9     B: (Löbb)
10 10     P: Duplicates
11 11     Aberdeen, Anthropological Museum 27.9.7
12 12     L: BMC 167
13 13     A: 5393a, ex coll. Postolakas
14 14     Istanbul: 6843
15 15     Oslo
16 16     C: Lewis 1390
17 17     Cop: 1287
18 18     P: 2547
19 19     Cop: 1288
20 20     P: 2548
21 21     NY
22 22     Braunschweig SNG 1066
23 23     C: Leake 2449, Asiatic Greece, p. 118.6
24 24     O
25 25     Gotha
26 26     O
27 27     Oslo
28 28     C: Lewis 1389
29 29     ✸ O Klose VI, Serie C, 40, pl. 8 (R33)
30 30     V-ON Leypold I, no. 713
31 31     Mu: 184 Klose VI, Serie C, 42, pl. 8 (V9, R35)
32 32     Vat: 197
34 34     Gotha
35 35     G: II, 370, no. 129 SNG I, no. 1525
36 36     NY: 1944.100.46936 Klose VI, Serie C, 43, pl. 8 (R36)
37 37     Mu: 185 Klose VI, Serie C, 44, pl. 8 (R37)
38 38     Private collection H.I. = Kairos Numismatik 2 (06/01/2018), 261