RPC I, 2453A

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 2453A
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Lydia
City Magnesia ad Sipylum
Reign Uncertain
Magistrate Flavius Noumenios ; Flavius Dionysios
Obverse inscription [ΘΕΟΝ ϹΥΝ]ΚΛΗΤΟΝ ΦΛΑΒΙΟΥ ΝΟΥ[ ] ΜΑΓΝΗ
Edition θεὸν σύνκλητον Φλαβίου Νου[---] Μάγνη(τες)
Translation for the divine senate, of Flavius Nou[---], the Magnetes
Obverse design draped bust of the Senate, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΦΛΑΒΙΟΥ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙΟΥ ΜΑΝΔΑΠΑΤ[ ]
Edition ἐπὶ Φλαβίου Διονυσίου ΜΑΝΔΑΠΑΤ[---]
Translation under Flavius Dionysios MANDAPAT[---]
Reverse design Cybele seated left, holding patera and resting on tympanum; at feet, lion
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 5.24 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference Hochard 1180, 1182
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
Note The readings on 2543A-B are uncertain. The readings for the Mu coins in Mionnet IV, pp. 70-71, nos 382-3 ('Cabinet de M. Cousinéry') are ΘƐΟΝ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟΝ ΜΑΓΝΗΤΩΝ [ ]ΠΙ ΜΑΝΔΑΛΟΥ / ΕΠΙ ΦΛΑΒΙΟΥ ΝΟΥΜΗΝΙΟΥ and [ ]ΜΑΓΝΗ[ ]ΘΕΟΔΟΤΟΥ / ΕΠΙ ΦΛΑΒΙΟΥ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΙ. There is a strategos called Aur. Theodotus under Gordian III, but these coins look much earlier, perhaps of the first century. The newly identified Yale specimen largely substantiates the Cop reading.  Possibly related to https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/86361?
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cop SNG 245 = GRPCL Magnesia 59
3 3     Mu SNG 246 = GRPCL Magnesia 58
4 4     CGT coll.
5 5     ✸ Yale: 2004.6.2899 Hochard 1316 (Maeonia)