RPC V.3, — (unassigned; ID 66525)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.3
Number — (unassigned; ID 66525)
Province Cappadocia
Region Cappadocia
City Caesarea
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Issue Caracalla year 19
Dating AD 216
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡ(ΗΛΙ) ΑΝΤΩΝ(Ε)ΙΝΟ(Ϲ)
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρήλι(ος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate head (bearded) of Caracalla right
Reverse inscription ΜΗΤΡΟ ΚΑΙϹΑ ΕΤ ΙΘ
Edition Μητρο(πόλεως) Καισα(ρία) ἔτ(ους) ιθʹ
Translation of Metropolis Caesarea, year 19
Reverse design Mount Argaeus, with star
Metal silver
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 2.84 g
Axis 12
Reference S 477, 477a; Ganschow 608
Specimens 5 (3 in the core collections)
Note Separated from https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/66523, of Severus's year 19, because of the somewhat different obverse legend. Regarded by Ganschow, p. 151, as an issue of Caracalla's year 19, because of the absence of any mention of the neocorate
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     NY = S 477a
— —     ✸ O D.R. Walker, ex Schulten, 1 Apr. 1987, lot 821
— —     V: GR 20164
— —     Ratto 1926, lot 2427 ( = S 477)
— —     Schulten Apr. 1987, lot 821