RPC IV.3, 5288 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume IV.3
Number 5288 (temporary)
Province Cappadocia
Region Pontus
City Amasea
Reign Marcus Aurelius
Person (obv.) Marcus Aurelius (Augustus)
Issue Year 165
Dating AD 162/3
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ Μ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖσ(αρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνῖνος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius wearing cuirass and paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΑΔΡ ΑΜΑϹ ΝΕΩΚ Κ ΜΗΤ Κ ΠΡΩ ΠΟΝ ΕΤ ΡΞΕ
Edition Ἁδρ(ιανῆ) Ἀμάσ(εια) νεωκ(όρος) μητ(ροπόλις) πρώ(τη) Πόν(του) ἔτ(ους) ρξεʹ
Translation Hadrianic Amasea, neocorate and metropolis and first city of Pontus, year 165
Reverse design to left, Ares standing, facing, head, right, wearing military dress, holding spear, resting hand on shield; to right, nude Aphrodite standing, left, covering her breasts with right hand and pudenda with left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 22.20 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference Rec 18a, GM 560, no. 4, Dalaison 82-85
Specimens 10 (4 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B GM 560, no. 4, Dalaison 82b and Pl. 8
2 2     V: GR 15042 Dalaison 83c and Pl. 9
3 3     ex Grand Duc coll.
4 4     ✸ L: 1929-10-13-394 Dalaison 82c and Pl. 8
5 5     vA 22, Dalaison 85f
6 6     L: 1979-1-1-1159 vA 6700, Dalaison 85d and Pl. 9
7 7     Yale: ex PRF Dalaison 84b
8 8     E.J. Waddell 1, Dec. 1982, lot 59 = Dalaison 84d and Pl. 9
9 9     G. Hirsch 226, 12 Feb. 2003, lot 1852, pl. 25
10 10     Münzen & Medaillen Deutschland 13, Righetti coll., 9 Oct. 2003, lot 211 = Dalaison 82f