RPC V.2, — (unassigned; ID 775)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.2
Number — (unassigned; ID 775)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Caerellius Attalos (strategos)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΚΡΑ Κ ΜΑΡΚΟϹ ΑΥΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Αὐτ<ο>κρά(τωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μᾶρκος Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front, with gorgoneion on cuirass
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Μ ΚΑΙΡΕΛ ΑΤΤΑΛΟΥ, ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΠΡΩΤΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
Edition ἐπὶ στρατηγοῦ Μᾶρκου Καίρελλίου Ἀττάλου Περγαμηνῶν πρώτων γʹ νεωκόρων ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Μ(ᾶρκου) Καίρελ(λίου) Ἀττάλου Περγαμηνῶν πρώτων γʹ νεωκόρων
Translation under strategos Marcus Caerellius Attalus, of the Pergamenes, first thrice neocorate
Reverse design Caracalla standing left, on base, raising right hand; on the left, the Tyche of Pergamum standing right, holding sceptre and cult-statue of Ascelpius standing, holding serpent-staff; on the right, soldier (or Roma?) standing left, holding Nike and spear
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 41 mm
Average weight 42.20 g
Axis 5, 6, 7
Reference BMC 320; SNG France 2237
Specimens 8 (4 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
— —     L: 1839,1224.275 BMC 320
— —     P: 1393 SNG 2237
— —     Mu: 219
— —     ✸ V: GR 16487
— —     Basel: 1918/4967 Weiser, Coinage and Identity, plate 11:3, no. 22
— —     V-ON SNG Leypold I, 428
— —     Aufhaüser 14, 6 Oct. 1998, lot 396
— —     CGT coll. = Roma Numismatics 4, 30 Sept. 2012, lot 2289 = Gorny & Mosch 152, 10 Oct. 2006, lot 1787