RPC VI, 8665


Image of specimen #13

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/8665 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	VI
Number	8665 (temporary)
Province	Syria Phoenice
Region	Phoenicia
City	Tyre
Reign	Elagabalus
Person (obv.)	Elagabalus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription	IMP CAES M AV ANTONINVS AV
Edition	Imp(erator) Caes(ar) M(arcus) Au(relius) Antoninus Au(gustus)
Translation	Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design	laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription	TVRIORVM
Edition	Tyriorum
Translation	of the Tyrians
Reverse design	Dido standing left, holding short sceptre and aplustre, between two figures on deck of galley; figure on left emptying uncertain circular objects into sea; below, murex shell and palm branch
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	27 mm
Average weight	11.20 g
Axis	1, 11, 12
Reference	Rouvier 2377–9
Specimens	15 (7 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	L: 1869,0706.2	BMC 410	26.5	13.34	11		Show
2	2	NY: 1944.100.81102		28	11.45	12	Obv.: GIC 399 (club betweeen T and V)	Show
3	3	P: B2246	Rouvier 2377.1	27	13.03			Show
4	4		Rouvier 2377.2 = Mi V, 435, 660					Show
5	5	NY: 0000.999.52752		27	9.05	1		Show
6	6	NY: 1944.100.81850		27	10.47	12		Show
7	7	B: F1873		27	12.32	12		Show
8	8		Rouvier 2378	26			Rouvier Coll.	Show
9	9	NY: 1944.100.81849		26	10.53	11		Show
10	10		Rouvier 2379	26	10.45		Obv.: GIC — (uncertain) ; Rouvier coll.	Show
11	11		Gorny & Mosch 233, 6 Oct. 2015, lot 2138	26	10.22			Show
12	12		CGT coll.	25	11.58	12		Show
13	13 ✸		CNG EA 571, 25 Sept. 2024, lot 483 = CNG EA 468, 20 May 2020, lot 198	27	10.80	12		Show
14	14		CNG EA 426, 8 Aug. 2018, lot 396	27	11.78	11		Show
15	15		C. Rhodes coll.	26	10.64	11		Show