Damascus in Syria, 139-147 AD., Marcus Aurelius Caesar, Æ19, RPC online temporary no. 6967.
Damascus in Coele Syria, Marcus Aurelius Caesar, ca. 139-147 AD.,
Æ19 (ø 19-21 mm / 5,64 g), brass, axes about medal alignment ↑↑ (ca. 340°),
Obv.: ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟC ΚΑΙ - ΑΥΤ ΥΙ[ΟC Υ]ΠΑΤ , bare-headed bust of Marcus Aurelius (youthful - lightly bearded) facing right, wearing paludamentum, seen from behind.
Rev.: [ΔA]MACKHNωN MHTPOΠ/ XPYCOPO , river-god Chrysoroas (or Chrysorrhoas) reclining left, holding three ears of corn with his right and cornucopia in left arm, left elbow resting on urn from which water flows.
RPC online temporary no. 6967 (4 pieces listed) ; Private coll. R.G. McAlee ; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale 46 ; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 27335/130 (under 'Uncertain') ; Lindgren III, 70, 1256 (as Commodus Caesar) = CNG 57 (04/04/2001), 872, obv. as 'Commodus') ; F. de Saulcy, Numismatique de la Terre Sainte (1874), 38, no. 2 .