RPC V.3, — (unassigned; ID 69060)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.3
Number — (unassigned; ID 69060)
Province Syria Phoenice
Region Syria
City Damascus
Reign Macrinus
Person (obv.) Macrinus (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ ΜΑΚΡΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μακρῖνος Σεβαστός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Μακρῖνος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Macrinus Augustus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Macrinus, right, seen from front, with gorgoneion on cuirass
Reverse inscription ΔΑΜΑϹΚΗΝωΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΟϹ
Edition Δαμασκηνῶν μητροπόλεως Δαμασκηνῶν μητροπόλεως
Translation of the Damascenes, metropolis
Reverse design elevated temple seen in perspective to left, situated above spring from which river god swims; tree to right of spring, altar at base of temple steps
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Average weight 11.76 g
Axis 6, 12
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Note See also Gallienus https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/88399.  The reverse type depicts the source (πηγή) of the Chrysoroas (Barada) River - a fact that is explicitly mentioned in later reworkings of the scene, for example on the coinage of Otacilia Severa https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/15976 .
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
— —     P: 66 Price-Trell p. 206, fig. 413 (where erroneously attributed to Otacilia).
— —     ✸ CNG EA 341, 17 Dec. 2014, lot 39 = Hirsch 157 24 Feb. 1988, lot 987
— —     Dix Noonan Webb 6, 29 Sept. 2008, lot 5707
— —     Roma Numismatics EA 111, 24 Aug. 2023, lot 713