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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1115B json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | I |
Number | 1115B |
Province | Achaea |
Region | Peloponnesus |
City | Messene |
Reign | Uncertain |
Issue | Julio-Claudian |
Dating | 27 BC – 68 AD |
Obverse inscription | ΜΕϹϹΗΝΙΩΝ |
Edition | Μεσσηνίων |
Translation | of the Messenians |
Obverse design | veiled and draped bust of Tyche, wearing mural crown |
Reverse inscription | |
Reverse design | Zeus standing, right, holding eagle on right outstreched arm and thunderbolt in left; in field, left and right, wreath and tripod |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 18 mm |
Average weight | 6.09 g |
Axis | 12 |
Reference | RPC (a); Grandjean serie XVI α677–684 and pl. XXIV |
Specimens | 14 (8 in the core collections) |
Addition | Additional coin-type (post publication) |