RPC III, 1296

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1296
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Pontus
City Amisus
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Caesar)
Issue Year 169 (PΞΘ)
Dating AD 137/8
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Κ Τ ΑΙΛΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Κ(αῖσαρ) Τ(ίτος) Αἴλιος Καῖσαρ Ἀντωνῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Caesar Antoninus
Obverse design bare-headed draped bust of Antoninus Caesar, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΑΜΙϹΟΥ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΑϹ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΡΞΘ
Edition Ἀμισοῦ ἐλευθέρας ἔτους ρξθʹ
Translation of free Amisus, year 169
Reverse design Tyche standing left, holding rudder in right hand and cornucopia in left
Metal silver
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 2.71 g
Axis 6
Reference Rec 109a corr., Nordbø 7c, 243–51
Specimens 11 (8 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1929,1013.479
2 2     O Nordbø pl. 2, 249
3 3     ✸ P: N 7223/1174 ex Grand Duc
4 4     B: I-B
5 5     V: GR 31175 R. Münsterberg, NZ 54 (1921), p. 129
6 6     V: GR 15119 Rec 109a, pl. IX.26 = R. Münsterberg, NZ 54 (1921), p. 129
7 7     V: GR 37274
8 8     Oslo
9 9     NY: 1944.100.41362
10 10     Naville 27, 27 Nov. 2016, lot 161
11 11     Blackburn SNG 946