RPC II, 671

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 671
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Prusias ad Hypium
Reign Domitian
Person (obv.) Domitian (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ ΓΕ(ΡΜΑ)
Edition Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Δομιτιανὸς Καῖσαρ Σεβαστὸς Γερμα(νικός)
Translation Emperor Domitian Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design laureate head of Domitian, right
Reverse inscription ΠΡ ΥΠ
Edition Πρ(ουσιέων) Ὑπ(ίῳ)
Translation of the Prusiasians near Hypium
Reverse design Ares walking right, with trophy and spear
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 35 mm
Average weight 25.67 g
Axis 6
Reference Rec 4, Stumpf 357
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Note Similar coins are found at Nicaea and Nicomedia (632, 653); all copy the Latin coinswith Mars, S C from the Thracian mint (502). The monograms on 671-4 standfor Προνσιείς πρός ΎπίⲰ.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: N4259 Prusa, but see E. Babelon, RN 1917–18, pp. 25–44 with pl. I.15: rev.
2 2     Trade 1990
3 3     Brussels: II, 55.520