RPC IV.2, 315 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 315 (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 Claudius Proklos, strategos
Dating c. 161–166
Obverse inscription ΖΕΥϹ ΑΚΡΑΙΟϹ (Ζ reversed)
Edition Ζεύς Ἀκραῖος
Translation Zeus Akraios
Obverse design head of Zeus Akraios with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription ΤΥΧΗ ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ
Edition Τύχη Σμυρναίων
Translation Fortune of the Smyrnaeans
Reverse design Tyche (or Homonoia?) standing, left, wearing kalathos, holding patera and cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 4.97 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference Klose VI, Serie C, 30–5, Cop 1280
Specimens 15 (11 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2732
2 2     B: I-B
3 3     ✸ L: 1894-10-5-23 Klose VI, Serie C, 30, pl. 8 (V8, R24)
4 4     B: (Löbb)
5 5     B: 9361
6 6     A: 5405a
7 7     V: GR 17621
8 8     Amsterdam: 5906a
9 9     Rome: 111081, ex coll. De Sanctis Klose VI, Serie C, 31, pl. 8 (R25)
10 10     C: Leake 2446, Asiatic Greece, p. 118.3
11 11     P: 2534
12 12     O Klose VI, Serie C, 32, pl. 8 (R26)
13 13     Mu: 199 Klose VI, Serie C, 33, pl. 8 (R27)
14 14     Cop: 1280 Klose VI, Serie C, 34, pl. 8 (R28)
15 15     Zurich: 605 Klose VI, Serie C, 35, pl. 8 (R29)