RPC V.2, — (unassigned; ID 387)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.2
Number — (unassigned; ID 387)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Caerellius Attalos (strategos)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΚΡΑΤ Κ Μ(ΑΡΚΟϹ) ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκρά(τωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μᾶρκος Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front, with gorgoneion on cuirass
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ ΚΑΙΡΕΛ ΑΤΤΑΛΟΥ, ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ, ΠΡΩΤΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Μ(ᾶρκου) Καίρελ(λίου) Ἀττάλου Περγαμηνῶν πρώτων γʹ νεωκόρων
Translation under the strategos Marcus Caerellius Attalus, of the Pergamenes, first thrice neocorate
Reverse design Caracalla, in military dress, standing left, rising right arm, holding sceptre, facing tree around which serpent is entwined; in the center, telesphorus standing, facing
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 42 mm
Average weight 44.17 g
Axis 6
Reference BMC 326
Specimens 11 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    ✸ L BMC 326
    NY: 1944.100.43359
    O: Milne
    Boston: 58.13
    CNG 36, 5 Dec. 1995, lot 2441
    CNG EA 197, 15 Oct. 2008, lot 70
    CNG EA 284, 8 Aug. 2012, lot 153 = CNG EA 109, 2 Mar. 2005, lot 106 = Berk, 12 May 1999, lot 768
    CNG MBS 75, 23 May 2007, lot 813
    CNG Triton VIII, 11 Jan. 2005, lot 760 = Berk 124, 3 Jan. 2002, lot 726
    Gemini VI, 10 Jan. 2010, lot 834 = ex Boston MFA 66.48 = ex vA
    Schulman NY, 6 June 1969, lot 1337