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Image of specimen #17 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2635 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | I |
Number | 2635 |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Ephesus |
Region | Lydia |
City | Tralles |
Reign | Augustus |
Person (obv.) | Publius Vedius Pollio |
Magistrate | Menandros, son of Parrasios |
Obverse inscription | ΟΥΗΙΔΙΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΕΩΝ |
Edition | Οὐηΐδιος Καίσαρέων |
Translation | Vedius, of the Caesareans |
Obverse design | bare head of Publius Vedius Pollio, right; behind, uncertain object |
Reverse inscription | ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΠΑΡΡΑΣΙΟΥ |
Edition | Μένανδρος Παρρασίου |
Translation | Menandros, son of Parrasios |
Reverse design | laureate head of Zeus, right |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 19 mm |
Average weight | 5.54 g |
Axis | 12 |
Reference | BMC 76, Cop 688, AMC 1363, Oer de Almeida 3 |
Specimens | 22 (18 in the core collections) |
Note | G. Stumpf, Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der Römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (1991), no. 156 attests the alternative spelling ΟΥΗΔΙΟΣ for Vedius (Pollio’s) name. |