Æ36 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΥ (Β) ΑΔΡΑΜΥΤΗΝΩΝ (ΑΙ) ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ, Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ

Features

Issuer	Adramyteum (Conventus of Adramyteum)
Emperor	Caracalla (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caracalla) (198-217)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	198-217
Composition	Bronze
Weight	24.54 g
Diameter	36 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 538755
References	RPC Online V.2# 1391 British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University Press (publisher). Roman Provincial Coinage / Volume 5.2 From Pertinax to Macrinus (AD 193–218): Bithynia-Pontus and Asia. British Museum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University Press.

Obverse

Laureate and cuirassed bust of Caracalla, right, seen from front, with gorgoneion on cuirass

Lettering: ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗ(ΛΙΟϹ) ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ ΑΥΓ

Unabridged legend: Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Αὔγουστος

Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Reverse

Cult statue of Artemis of Ephesus standing facing, wearing kalathos, with supports, and Zeus Idaios standing left, holding eagle and sceptre

Lettering: ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ ΜΑΡΚΙΑΝΟΥ (Β) ΑΔΡΑΜΥΤΗΝΩΝ Κ(ΑΙ) ΕΦΕϹΙΩΝ, Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ

Unabridged legend: ἐπὶ στρατηγοῦ Μαρκιανοῦ βʹ Ἀδραμυτηνῶν καὶ Ἐφεσίων γʹ νεωκόρων ὁμόνοια

Translation: under strategos Marcianus II, of the Adramyteans and Ephesians, thrice neocorate, concord

Mint

Adramyteum, Mysia, modern-day Edremit, Turkey

Comments

von Fritze 145–9; Franke & Nollé 1–19; Stauber 148

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (198-217)

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