RPC V.3, — (unassigned; ID 78116)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.3
Number — (unassigned; ID 78116)
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Issue Year 21
Dating AD 212/13
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ ΑΥΡ ϹΕ ΑΝΤωΝΙΝΟϹ Π ΜΕ ΒΡΕ Μ ΕΥ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Σε(ουῆρος) Ἀντωνῖνος Π(αρθικὸς) Μέ(γιστος) Βρε(ττανικὸς) Μ(έγιστος) Εὐ(σεβὴς) Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Parthicus Greatest Britannicus Greatest Pious Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Caracalla, right
Reverse inscription L ΚΑ
Edition (ἔτους) καʹ
Translation of year 20
Reverse design Caracalla, laureate and wearing military attire, standing facing, head right, holding a spear with his right hand and a globe in his left; on his right, Sarapis standing facing, head left, holding a sceptre with his left hand and crowning Caracalla with a wreath held in his right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Average weight 21.30 g
Axis 12
Reference D 4053-4054; DS 9759–9761; BMC 3134; Geissen 2284; Emmett 2831A
Specimens 18 (6 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    L: 1950,1006.222 BMC 3134
    B: 18205937, 1906 Löbbecke
    NY: 1944.100.64234
    NY: 1944.100.64235
    O: HCR33808
    O: HCR33807 M. 2732b
    Cologne Geissen 2284
    CNA XIII, 4. Dec. 1990, lot 141 (ex Wetterstrom coll.)
    CNG 53, 15 Mar. 2000, lot 1232 = CNA XII, 26 Sept. 1990, lot 287
    D 4053
    DS 11600 = Naville Numismatics 93, 15 Dec. 2024, lot 455 = Naville Numismatics 38, 11 Mar. 2018, lot 418
    DS 9759
    ✸ DS 9760 = Peus 360, 27 Apr. 1999, lot 712 = CNG 109, 12 Sept. 2018, lot 493 = Triton VI, 14 Jan. 2003, lot 603
    DS 9761
    DS pl. 220, 4054 = Naville Numismatics 70, 12 Dec. 2021, lot 307
    J. Aiello coll.
    J. Aiello coll.
    Matthijs coll. = CNG Triton XXI, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 197 = Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 196 = Frank L. Kovacs XI, 19 June 1993, lot 206