Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Marcus Aurelius, as Caesar, Æ28 of Plotinopolis, Thrace. AD 161-180. M AVPHΛIOC OVHPOC KAICAP, bareheaded and cuirassed bust right / ΠΛΩ[Τ]ЄΙΝ[Ο]ΠΟΛ[Є]ΙΤΩΝ, Cybele seated on lion right, holding thyrsus. RPC Online -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -. 13.26g, 28mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Attractive patina. Apparently unpublished.
This highly attractive and seemingly unpublished bronze features the Imperial Magna Mater ("Great Mother") Cybele as the reverse type, a fitting allegory to have been used in a city founded by the emperor Trajan and named after his wife, Pompeia Plotina, a woman renowned for her virtue, dignity and modesty.
Extremely Fine. Attractive patina. Apparently unpublished.
This highly attractive and seemingly unpublished bronze features the Imperial Magna Mater ("Great Mother") Cybele as the reverse type, a fitting allegory to have been used in a city founded by the emperor Trajan and named after his wife, Pompeia Plotina, a woman renowned for her virtue, dignity and modesty.