RPC — Type: 76691


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Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/76691 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	X
Number	— (unassigned; ID 76691) (forgery)
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Macrianus and Quietus
Person (obv.)	Quietus (Augustus)
Issue	Year 1: false
Obverse inscription	Κ Φ Ϲ ΥΑ ΚΟΥΗΤΟϹ Ε ϹΕΒ
Edition	Κ Φ Σ Υα Κούητος Εὐσεβής Σεβαστός Κ Φ Σ Υα Κούητος Ε(ὐσεβής) Σεβ(αστός)
Translation	K F Ua Quietus Pious Augustus
Obverse design	laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Quietus, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription	L Α
Edition	ἔτους αʹ (ἔτους) αʹ
Translation	of year 1
Reverse design	Tyche reclining, left, on garlanded couch, holding rudder and raising arm to head
Metal	debased silver
Average weight	6.18 g
Specimens	1 (1 in the core collections)

#	Specimen	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
—	— ✸			Mu			6.18		Legutko, p. 136, note 7: "Vogt lists a coin of Quietus in Munich with the reverse type of Tyche (6.18 g), but it is probably a forgery (pers. com. W.E. Metcalf)". See also now K. Ehling, ‘Falsch? Nein echt! Eine alexandrinische Billon-Tetradrachme für Quietus (261/262 n. Chr.) mit der Zählung „Jahr 2“’ JNG 75 (2025), pp. 289-302, at 300-1	Show