RPC II, 717

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 717
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Paphlagonia
City Sinope
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Domitian (Caesar)
Issue Year 120 = AD 74/5
Obverse inscription DOMITIANVS CAESAR AVGVSTI FIL
Edition Domitianus Caesar Augusti filius Domitianus Caesar Augusti fil(ius)
Translation Domitian Caesar, son of Augustus
Obverse design laureate bust of Domitian, right, with some drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription C I F AN CXX
Edition Colonia Iulia Felix anno CXX C(olonia) I(ulia) F(elix) an(no) >CXX
Translation the Julian colony of Felix (Sinope), in the year 120
Reverse design Nemesis standing, left, holding up dress and with transverse sceptre; at feet, spoked wheel
Metal leaded bronze
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 5.39 g
Axis 12
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same pair of dies.
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: 1986,1036.1 Schulten Köln, Oct. 1984, lot 195 = Empire 25, 1984, lot E 173
2 2     Sinop: 9-1-84 J. Casey, Sinope. A Catalogue of Greek, Roman and Byzantine Coins in Sinop Museum (Turkey) and Related Historical and Numismatic Studies (London, 2010), p. 30 no. 330 (misread and misdated)