RPC V.3, — (unassigned; ID 85699)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.3
Number — (unassigned; ID 85699)
Province Cilicia
Region Lycaonia
City Isaura
Reign Septimius Severus
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Αὐ(ρήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front, with gorgoneion and balteus on cuirass
Reverse inscription ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ ΙϹΑΥΡΩΝ
Edition Μητροπόλεως Ἰσαύρων Μητροπόλεως Ἰσαύρων
Translation metropolis of the Isaurians
Reverse design Lycaon (?), laureate and in military dress, advancing right, holding sceptre and receiving tablet from Apollo standing left, holding laurel branch; between, wolf seated left, head right, carrying human hand in its mouth; below, altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 8.36 g
Axis 6, 7, 12
Specimens 12 (2 in the core collections)
Note The attribution to the figure on the rev. to King Lycaon is due to L. Rutten (pers. comm.), who pointed out that the animal between the two figures is the wolf carrying human a hand in its mouth on the coins of Laranda (RPC VIII, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/2206).
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
— —     L: 1892,0910.12 BMC 4
— —     B: 18224476, Löbb.
— —     V-ON SNG Leypold 2200
— —     CGT coll.
— —     Künker 262, 13 Mar. 2015, lot 8174
— —     Leu 7, 24 Oct. 2020, lot 1474
— —     ✸ Leu WA 24, 3 Dec. 2022, lot 2261
— —     N&N London EA 13, 26 Feb. 2023, lot 311
— —     N&N London Green 1, 3 Sept. 2022, lot 378
— —     SNG Levante 262
— —     Ziegler 3 = Duisburger coll.
— —     Ziegler 4 = Burgbach coll.