RPC X, — (unassigned; ID 60167)

 

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Coin type
Volume X
Number — (unassigned; ID 60167)
Province Phrygia-Caria
Subprovince Conventus of Alabanda
Region Caria
City Apollonia Salbace
Reign Gallienus (sole reign)
Person (obv.) Gallienus (Augustus)
Magistrate Menandros Pelides (strategos)
Obverse inscription [ ]ΝΟϹ
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gallienus, left, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ϹΤΡΑ [ ] / ΑΠΟΛΛΩ/ΝΙΑΤΩΝ
Reverse design Apollo standing left, holding lyre in right and plectrum in left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 6
Reference Robert, La Carie AN
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note Confirmation required: see below for Johnston's doubt about the attribution, and the obverse is very different from most of the other contemporary coins of Apollonia. The reading ΜƐΝ for Menandros (BMC, followed by Robert) is plausible (rather than definite). If correct, it would make the attribution likely. See also now https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/87546.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     ✸ L: HPB,p114.1.G BMC 27 ('.... ΛΛΙΗΝΟϹ'/'ϹΤΡΑ ΜƐΝ ...... / ΑΠΟΛΛΩ/ΝΙΑΤΩΝ') = Robert AN ([Γα]λλιηνός /Στρα Μεν Ἀπολλωνιατων')