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 AVG FIL
Edition Domitianus Caesar Aug(usti) fil(ius)
Translation Domitian Caesar, son of Augustus
Obverse design laureate bust of Domitian, right
Reverse inscription C I F AN CXX
Edition 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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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number 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)