RPC X, — (unassigned; ID 94711) (forgery)

 

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Coin type
Volume X
Number — (unassigned; ID 94711) (forgery)
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Macrianus and Quietus
Person (obv.) Quietus (Augustus)
Issue Year 2: false
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΦΟΥΛ ΚΥΙΗΤΟϹ ΕΥ ΕΥ Ϲ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Φούλουιος Κυϊήτος Εὐσεβὴς Εὐτυχὴς Σεβαστός Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Καῖ(σαρ) Φούλ(ουιος) Κυϊήτος Εὐ(σεβὴς) Εὐ(τυχὴς) Σ(εβαστός)
Translation Emperor Caesar Fulvius Quietus Pius Fortunate Augustus
Obverse design laureate and cuirassed bust of Quietus, right, seen from front
Reverse inscription L Β
Edition ἔτους βʹ (ἔτους) βʹ
Translation of year 2
Reverse design Elpis advancing left holding flower and rising skirt
Metal debased silver
Average weight 10.61 g
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note Discussed, with arguments for authenticity, by K. Ehling, ‘Falsch? Nein echt! Eine alexandrinische Billon-Tetradrachme für Quietus (261/262 n. Chr.) mit der Zählung „Jahr 2“’ JNG 75 (2025), pp. 289-302, at 300-. Regarded here as tooled from a coin of Gallienus (as RPC X, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/75297). See the discussion in the Introduction to Alexandria.
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