RPC III, 754

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 754
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Philippopolis
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Aelius (Caesar)
Obverse inscription Λ ΑΙΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Nominative Lucius Aelius Caesar
Obverse design bare head of Aelius, right
Reverse inscription ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Reverse design Apollo (?) standing left, naked but a drapery on his right shoulder, holding patera in his right hand and two arrows (?) in his left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 6
Reference Mouchmov 22, Varbanov 642
Specimens 10 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same rev. die as 748/1.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: Cousinéry
2 2     B: 18248001, 28773
3 3     Sofia: 1539 Mouchmov, pl. II, 22
4 4     ✸ Lanz 114, 26 May 2003, lot 390
5 5     Gorny & Mosch 142, 10–11 Oct. 2005, lot 1893
6 6     Lanz 147, 2 Nov. 2009, lot 341
7 7     MM Deutschland 36, 30 May 2012, lot 568 = Münzhandlung Sonntag 22, 30 Nov. 2015, lot 43
8 8     Rauch 284, 26–27 Sept. 2012, lot 2841
9 9     vcoins = MünzZentrum 181, 17–18 May 2017, lot 232
10 10     Leu WA 28, 9–14 Dec. 2023, lot 2192 = Lanz 164, 23 May 2017, lot 193