RPC X, — (unassigned; ID 63269)

 

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Coin type
Volume X
Number — (unassigned; ID 63269)
Province Phrygia-Caria
Subprovince Conventus of Synnada
Region Phrygia
City Synnada
Reign Gallienus (sole reign)
Person (obv.) Gallienus (Augustus)
Magistrate Kelsos (archon for the second time)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Π ΛΙΚ ΓΑΛΛΗΝΟϹ / Ϲ-ΕΒ
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gallienus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ϹΥΝΝΑΔΕΩΝ ΚΕΛϹΟΥ Β / ΑΡΧ - ΕΠ
Reverse design two athletes, one on right holding palm in left and crowning himself with right; the one on left drops tessera into urn between them; above and between them, prize crown
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 31 mm
Axis 6
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note The strangely positioned ƐΠ seems to stand for ἐπί (so Schultz)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    ✸ B: 18202545, 1966/1 H.-D. Schultz, 'Unedierte und seltene griechische Münzen aus Neuerwerbungen des Münzkabinetts', Forschungen und Berichte 10 (1968), p. 220, no. 9.