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Image of specimen #5 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/1440 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | I |
Number | 1440 |
Province | Achaea |
Region | Thessaly |
City | Koinon of Thessaly |
Reign | Nero |
Person (obv.) | Nero (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Aristion (strategos) |
Obverse inscription | ΝΕΡΩΝ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΩΝ |
Edition | Νέρων Θεσσαλῶν |
Translation | for Nero, of the Thessalians |
Obverse design | radiate head of Nero, right |
Reverse inscription | ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΥ ΑΡΙΣΤΙΩΝΟΣ |
Edition | στρατηγοῦ Ἀριστίωνος |
Translation | under strategos Aristion |
Reverse design | Taurokathapsia scene: Hero Thessalos jumping from his horse, in background galloping right, onto a bull running right, the head of which he restrains with a band held in both his hands |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 20 mm |
Average weight | 6.70 g |
Axis | 6, 12 |
Reference | Rogers 81, Burrer Em 1, p. 150–1, 30–37 (series 2) |
Specimens | 7 (3 in the core collections) |
Correction | Corrected coin-type (post publication) |