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Image of specimen #4 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/615 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | II |
Number | 615 |
Province | Bithynia-Pontus |
Region | Bithynia |
City | Koinon of Bithynia |
Reign | Vespasian |
Person (obv.) | Vespasian (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Lucius Antonius Naso (procurator) |
Obverse inscription | ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣ ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟ(Σ) |
Edition | Αὐτοκρ(άτωρ) Καῖσαρ Σεβασ(τὸς) Οὐεσπασιανός |
Translation | Emperor Caesar Augustus Vespasian |
Obverse design | laureate head of Vespasian right |
Reverse inscription | ΕΠΙ Λ(ΟΥΚΙΟΥ) ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥ ΝΑΣΩΝΟΣ ΕΠΙΤΡΟ(Π)(ΟΥ), ΒΙΘΥΝΙΑ (in field) |
Edition | ἐπὶ Λουκίου Ἀντωνίου Νασῶνος ἐπιτρόπου Βιθυνία |
Translation | under Lucius Antonius Naso, procurator, Bithynia |
Reverse design | Bithynia standing, right, with foot on elephant head, holding rudder and plough |
Metal | brass |
Average diameter | 30 mm |
Average weight | 16.97 g |
Axis | 7 |
Reference | Rec 7–8 |
Specimens | 4 (3 in the core collections) |
Note | 1 and 3 have ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ; 2 has ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝ, followed by a very small Ο: clearly the engraver had run out of space |