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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/669 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | II |
Number | 669 |
Province | Bithynia-Pontus |
Region | Bithynia |
City | Prusias ad Hypium |
Reign | Vespasian |
Person (obv.) | Vespasian (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Marcus Plancius Varus (proconsul) |
Obverse inscription | ΑΥΤ [ΚΑΙΣΑΡΙ ΣΕΒΑΣΤ]Ω ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑ[ΝΩ ΠΡ]ΟΥΣΙΕΙΣ |
Edition | Αὐτ(οκράτορι) Καίσαρι Σεβαστῷ Οὐεσπασιανῷ Προυσιεῖς |
Translation | to Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus, the Prusians |
Obverse design | laureate head of Vespasian, right |
Reverse inscription | ΕΠΙ ΜΑΡΚΟΥ [ ] ΟΥΑΡΟΥ Α[ΝΘΥΠΑΤΟΥ] |
Edition | ἐπὶ Μάρκου [---] Οὐάρου ἀνθυπάτου |
Translation | under Marcus [---] Varus, proconsul |
Reverse design | temple with four columns |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 27 mm |
Average weight | 13.14 g |
Axis | 5 |
Specimens | 1 (0 in the core collections) |
Note | The reading of the part of the ethnic is just about clear, but should not yet be regarded as certain (confirmation required). If the attribution is correct, the temple is presumably the same as the Kapetolionsebaston on RPC II, 687; see discussion there. |