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| URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/6/8236 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
| Volume | VI |
| Number | 8236 (temporary) |
| Province | Syria Phoenice |
| Region | Phoenicia |
| City | Caesarea ad Libanum |
| Reign | Elagabalus |
| Person (obv.) | Elagabalus (Augustus) |
| Issue | ΒΛΦ = 532 |
| Dating | 220/221 |
| Obverse inscription | IMP M AV ANTONINVS [?] |
| Edition | Imp(erator) M(arcus) Au(relius) Antoninus [---] |
| Translation | Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus [---] |
| Obverse design | laureate head of Elagabalus, right |
| Reverse inscription | COL C[...] ΒΛΦ |
| Edition | col(onia) C[---] βλφʹ |
| Translation | the colony C[---], 532 |
| Reverse design | front view of temple with four columns with arcuated lintel in the middle, within which Astarte standing, facing, wearing kalathos, resting on long sceptre, crowned by military figure standing, left; in exergue, river god swimming, right, between two stairways |
| Metal | copper-based alloy |
| Average diameter | 24 mm |
| Average weight | 9.40 g |
| Axis | 1, 6 |
| Reference | Lindgren III, 1399 |
| Specimens | 4 (3 in the core collections) |