RIC temp #2943

Temp №: 2943
Reign Aurelianus
Person Aurelianus
Mint Cyzicus
Issue 5
Issue name
Datation early – summer 272
Officina 1
Denomination Antoniniani
obverse reverse
Obverse coin Revers coin
Titulature IMP AVRELIANVS AVG Legend FIDES MILITVM
Obverse mark Reverse mark –/–//*C
Bust code B1 Reverse code Emperor and Jupiter 1c
Bust description Bust right, radiate, cuirassed Reverse description Emperor in military dress stg. r., holding short sceptre in l. hand, receiving a globe from Jupiter stg. l., holding long sceptre in l. hand.

Note Gloucester 504 reads IMP AVRELIANS AVG - an engraver's error.
A coin in Bu reads -/-//*C• - the presence of a pellet in the exergue repeats the old habit to use pellets to distinguish officinae.
Reference BNC 1154
RIC1st 344

Specimens of this coin type
Location Reference Quantity Weight Axis Remark
Paris (Pflaum 621) BNC 1154 = Thibouville 2265 1 3.12 6 photo
Vienna (63396, Rohde) 1 3.30 6 photo
Budapest 1 5 -/-//*C• photo
Gloucester 503 1 3.43
Gloucester 504 1 2.94 5 IMP AVRELIANS AVG photo