RPC X, — (unassigned; ID 74697)

 

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Coin type
Volume X
Number — (unassigned; ID 74697)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Nicomedia
Reign Valerian and Gallienus
Person (obv.) Valerian (Augustus) ; Gallienus (Augustus) ; Valerian II (Caesar)
Issue Period D: triple portraits
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟϹ ΓΑΛΛΗΝΟϹ ΟΥΑΛΕΡΙΑΝΟ(Ϲ) (Κ)(ΑΙϹΑ) (ϹΕΒΒΒ]
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτορες) Οὐαλεριανὸς Γαλλ<ι>ηνὸς Οὐαλεριανὸς Καῖσα(ρ) Σεβ(αστοί)
Translation Emperors Valerian, Gallienus, Valerian Caesar, Augusti
Obverse design confronted laureate, draped and cuirassed busts of Valerian and Gallienus; between, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Valerian II, right
Reverse inscription ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΤΡΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Edition Νικομηδέων τρὶς νεωκόρων
Translation of the Nicomedians, thrice neocorate
Reverse design three temples, two seen in 3/4 view, flanking altar from which serpent rises; the third, above, seen from front, encloses standing figure of Emperor (?), left., holding shield and spear
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Average weight 8.06 g
Axis 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12
Reference Rec 407–408 (Demeter)
Specimens 32 (20 in the core collections)
Note The figure in the upper temple is often indistinct, but on some clear specimens it looks more like the emperor with shield and spear than Demeter with corn ears and torch.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     L: 1961,0301.128
— —     L BMC 68
— —     L: 1844,0425.1171.E BMC 70
— —     ✸ L: 1979,0101.1455 vA 7141
— —     P: 1466
— —     P: 1467 Rec pl. 98.29
— —     B
— —     B: 1906 Löbbecke
— —     B: 1922/316 Cahn, May 1922, lot 1092
— —     C: Mossop SH 2115
— —     C: Leake
— —     Mu: 21-6018
— —     Mu: 21-6019
— —     NY: 1942.148.3
— —     NY: 1944.100.42331
— —     O: Christ Church
— —     V: GR 34453
— —     V: GR 15851
— —     V
— —     V
— —     Boston: 62.315 ex vA 859
— —     V-ON SNG Leypold 250
— —    
— —     Berk Buy or Bid Sale 218, 10 Feb. 2022, lot 326
— —     CGT coll. = LAC Auction 52, 8 June 2916, lot 101
— —     CNG EA 469, 3 June 2020, lot 221
— —     Falghera 2497
— —     Leu EA 18, 18 Dec. 2021, lot 1917
— —     Lindgren I, 180
— —     Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 46 - Part 1, 15 Feb. 2018, lot 396 = NAC 100/2, 2017, lot 1203
— —     R. Hoppensteadt coll.
— —     Roma Numismatics EA 101, 13 Oct. 2022, lot 842