RPC X, — (unassigned; ID 63000)

 

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Coin type
Volume X
Number — (unassigned; ID 63000)
Province Syria Phoenice
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Valerian and Gallienus
Person (obv.) Gallienus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AV
Obverse design radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gallienus, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription COL TVRO MET
Reverse design Sacrifice to Melqarth-Hercules. Female figure wearing kalathos standing right, both hands raised above lighted altar before temple with two columns, seen in perspective, containing club of Hercules; to right, murex shell; (above altar, star)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 6, 12
Reference Rouvier 2536–2537
Specimens 7 (4 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    L: 1908,0110.1404 BMC 490
    P Babelon 2334
    NY: 1944.100.81961
    NY: 1944.100.81963 Rouvier 2539 with pl. IV.17
    CNG EA 375, 1 June 2016, lot 115
    CNG Triton XVI Sessions 1 & 2, 8 Jan. 2013, lot 741
    ✸ Künker eLive 37, 20 Oct. 2015, lot 274