RPC IV.2, 252 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #22

 

Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 252 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Lucilla (Augusta)
Magistrate Publius Aelius Arizelos (strategos)
Issue Commodus as Caesar and Lucilla Augusta
Dating 175–177
Obverse inscription ΛοΥΚΙΛΛΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ
Obverse design draped bust of Lucilla, right
Reverse inscription ϹΤΡ ΑΡΙΖΗΛοΥ ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ
Reverse design two Nemeses standing, facing each other, each plucking chiton, left one holding bridle, right one holding cubit
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 6, 7
Reference Klose LII, Serie A, 1–2, BMC 353, Cop 1370
Specimens 23 (11 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Mu: 357
2 2     Gotha
3 3     P: 2589 Klose LII, Serie A, 1, pl. 41 (R1)
4 4     A: 5417, ex coll. Postolakas
5 5     P: 2591
6 6     P: 2590
7 7     Hannover: 320
8 8     V: GR 17803
9 9     A: 5418, ex coll. Postolakas
10 10     V: GR 27763
11 11     vA 2214
12 12     Budapest
13 13     O
14 14     B: alter Bestand
15 15     B: I-B Klose LII, Serie A, 2, pl. 41 (R2)
16 16     L: BMC 353
17 17     Cop: 1370
18 18     Falghera 1117
19 19     Naville [Geneva] 5 (18/06/1923), 656, pl. , perhaps identcial with some of the other specimens of this type
20 20     SNG Tatış I, no. 359
21 21     Paul-Francis Jacquier 16 (Autumn 1994), 323
22 22     ✸ Numismatik Lanz 144 (24/11/2008), 528
23 23     Schulten 19 (21/10/1986), 507 = Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 15 (21/10/2004), coll. J.-P. Righetti, 696 = Schulten 9 (02/06/1982), 806