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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Cyprus| > SH68986
Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, August 138 - 7 March 161 A.D., Koinon of Cyprus
|Cyprus|, |Antoninus| |Pius| |and| |Marcus| |Aurelius,| |August| |138| |-| |7| |March| |161| |A.D.,| |Koinon| |of| |Cyprus|, A protocontorniate is a normal, large bronze coin, typically a sestertius, which was altered in antiquity by an individual hammering the edge to create raised rims. A common assumption is that protocontorniates were used as game counters. Andreas Alföldi argued that protocontorniates were New Year's gifts in the fourth century before proper contorniates were struck at the Rome mint.
SH68986. Bronze Protocontorniate, RPC Online 5042; BMC Cyprus p. 84, 47; SNG Cop 87; Tziambazis 27; SGICV 1523, F, rim chip, porous, Cypriot mint, weight 21.941g, maximum diameter 30.4mm, die axis 180o, 141 - 161 A.D.; obverse AYT K T AIΛ AΔPI ANTWNINOC CEB E, laureate head of Antoninus Pius right; reverse M AYPHΛIOC KAICAP YIOC CEBAC (no breaks), bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust of Marcus Aurelius with a short beard right; SOLD










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