RPC IV.3, 5298 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 5298 (temporary)
Province Cappadocia
Region Pontus
City Amasea
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Issue Year 157 (AD 154/155)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΑΔΡΙ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ
Obverse design laureate head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription ΑΜΑϹΙΑϹ ΤΗϹ ΜΗΤΡοΠοΛΕΩϹ Ε ΡΝΖ
Reverse design funeral pyre; to left, tree
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference Rec 12 corr., 14 and 14a corr., Dalaison Amaseia 59-63
Specimens 10 (6 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 842 (ex Grand Duc coll.) Dalaison 59g and Pl. 6
2 2     P: 90, reverse legend perhaps with ... ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛƐΩ ... only, perhaps tooled Dalaison 60b and Pl. 6
3 3     ✸ L: 1983-1-14-1 Dalaison 62a and Pl. 6
4 4     C: Leake 1006, Asiatic Greece, p. 8.3 Rec 12, pl. IV.14 = Dalaison 59c
5 5     NY: 1998.18.28 Lindgren III, A133a = Dalaison 59o
6 6     B: B-I Dalaison 60a
7 7     vA 21, on reverse, era as year '155' = Dalaison 59q
8 8     Bern: Righetti 541 = Dalaison 59b
9 9     V-ON Leypold I, no. 3, obverse legend obscure = Dalaison 59i
10 10     G. Hirsch 224, 20 Nov. 2002, lot 621, pl. 22 = Dalaison 59k