RPC VI, 4477 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume VI
Number 4477 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Sardis
Region Lydia
City Sardis
Reign Elagabalus
Person (obv.) Julia Maesa (Augusta)
Issue Group 1
Obverse inscription ΙΟΥΛΙΑ ΜΑΙϹΑ ΑΥΓΟΥ
Obverse design draped bust of Julia Maesa, r
Reverse inscription CΑΡΔIANΩΝ Β ΝΕΩKOΡΩΝ
Reverse design Mên standing facing, head left, wearing crescent on shoulders, holding pine cone and spear
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Axis 6
Reference GRPCL 603, Hochard 2072c
Specimens 5 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Harvard: 1981.74.50
2 2     SNG Tatiş 791
3 3     ✸ CGT coll.
4 4     Sardis Excavations 2012.27, illustrated by J. DeRose Evans, 'The Third Neokorate of Sardis in Light of a New Coin Type Found in Sardis', in FIDES: Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of Richard B. Witschonke, p. 490, figs. 4-5
5 5     CGT coll.