RPC I, 2928

 

Image of specimen #19

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 2928
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Cibyra
Region Phrygia
City Laodicea ad Lycum
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Magistrate Antonius Zenon II, grandson of Polemon (priest for the fourth time)
Alliance with Smyrna
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
Obverse design laureate head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription ΑΝΤΩ ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ ΖΗΝΩΝ ΥΙΟΣ ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΖΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ ΟΜΗΡΟΣ
Reverse design facing Demoi of Laodicea and Smyrna, clasping hands and holding sceptres
Metal leaded bronze
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 1, 6, 12
Reference BMC 265, Cop 614, Martin, Demos Laodikeia 5
Specimens 23 (16 in the core collections)
Note Specimens in B not recorded. For the interpretation of the rev. scene, see D.A.O. Klose, SM 133 (1984), pp. 1–3, and Die Münzprägung von Smyrna, p. 53. It is not immediately obvious how to construe and interpret the rev. legend, as the words are in such an odd order; it is possible that ΥΙΟΣ should be associated with ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ and ΖΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ; as in the phrase ΥΙΟΣ ΠΟΛΕΩΣ, and that ΟΜΗΡΟΣ should be taken in a personal way as referring to Zenon (who had perhaps, e.g., acted as surety in some dispute between the cities), rather than as an abstract concept like Homonoia. For a similar issue under Claudius, see 2912. See now Franke & Nollé pp. 118-21 nos, 1162-97.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 265
2 2     L BMC 266
3 3     L BMC 267
4 4     L BMC 268
5 5     L BMC 269
6 6     NY: 1970.142.586
7 7     NY: 1971.279.59
8 8     Cop SNG 614
9 9     P: 1535
10 10     P: Smyrna 2491 Wa 7131
11 11     O
12 12     O
13 13     O
14 14     V: GR 37788
15 15     Mu: o.N.
16 16     Mu: 25
17 17     Waddell 9.12.1982
18 18     Weber 7152
19 19     ✸ Künker 295, 25 Sept. 2017, lot 710 (ex Hirsch 183, 1994, lots 954; MüneZentrum 77, 1994, lot 361) = Künker 318, 11 Mar. 2019, lot 1069
20 20     CGT coll. = Roma Auction IV, 20 Sept. 2012, lot 2059
21 21     CGT coll. ex G. Rohde coll.
22 22     F. Vink coll.
23 23     Boston: 1998.621