RPC VII.2, 640

 

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Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 640
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Gordian III
Person (obv.) Gordian III (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Aurelius Dionysios (in office for the second time) ; Pr— Alexandra
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΝΤ ΓΟΡΔΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Augustus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Gordian III, right, seen from front, with gorgoneion on cuirass, raising left hand
Reverse inscription ΕΠ Μ ΑΥΡ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟΥ Τ Β Κ Π ΑΛΕΖΑΝΔΡΑϹ, ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΤΟ Β
Reverse design four torches (or fish traps?), in the middle a wreathed lighted altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 1, 7, 12
Reference Schönert‑Geiss, Byzantion 1798
External URI(s) https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/5220
Specimens 4 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same pair of dies. 1–4: same obv. die as 638/1–3, 639/1–8.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 485 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1798/2
2 2     ✸ B: 18235905, I-B Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1798/1
3 3     NY: 1944.100.15651
4 4     Lanz 38, 24 Nov. 1986, lot 809 = Athena GmbH 2, 4 Oct. 1988, lot 431 = Gorny & Mosch 241, 10 Oct. 2016, lot 1779 = Fischer 158, 15 Sept. 2017, lot 672