RPC V.3, — (unassigned; ID 87735)

 

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Coin type
Volume V.3
Number — (unassigned; ID 87735)
Province Syria Phoenice
Region Syria
City Emesa
Reign Caracalla
Person (obv.) Caracalla (Augustus)
Issue Group crescent
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Μ Α ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβαστός Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Μ(ᾶρκος) Α(ὐρήλιος) Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβ(αστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Caracalla, right
Reverse inscription ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟϹ ΤΟ Δ
Edition Δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας ὕπατος τὸ δʹ Δημαρχ(ικῆς) ἐξ(ουσίας) ὕπατος τὸ δʹ
Translation holder of the tribunitian power, consul for the fourth time
Reverse design eagle standing facing, head left, wings spread, wreath in beak; between eagle's legs, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Shamash, left
Metal debased silver
Average diameter 25 mm
Reference Bellinger 193, Prieur 1014
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note read as inverted Γ by Bellinger 193; described as crescent turned l. below eagle's head by Prieur

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
    ✸ Bellinger, NNM 49 (1931), p. 10, n° 5 and Pl. II; Bellinger 193 and Pl. XIV, 11 (rev.)