RPC II, 964

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 964
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Aeolis
City Myrina
Reign Domitian
Person (obv.) Domitian (Augustus) ; Domitia (Augusta)
Magistrate Kleinias (archon)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΝ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΑ
Edition Αὐτοκράτορα Δομιτιανὸν Καίσαρα
Translation for Emperor Domitian Caesar
Obverse design laureate head of Domitian, right, facing draped bust of Domitia, left
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΚΛΕΙΝΙΟΥ ΑΡΧΟΝΤΟϹ, ΜΥΡΙ(ΝΑ)
Edition ἐπὶ Κλεινίου ἄρχοντος Μυρίνα
Translation under Kleinias archon, Myrina
Reverse design Apollo standing facing, hand beside side and holding laurel (?) branch and taenia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 4.84 g
Axis 1, 12
Specimens 10 (2 in the core collections)
Note The object which Apollo holds is not clear; rather than a laurel branch it might alternatively perhaps be a lyre.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: 18203574, I-B ZfN 20 (1897), p. 283, no. 5
2 2     Mu SNG 790 ('Mytilene')
3 3     Plankenhorn coll.
4 4     G. Rohde coll.
5 5     G. Rohde coll.
6 6     Naumann 52, 2 Apr. 2017, lot 282
7 7     CGT coll.
8 8     ✸ A. Tricarico coll. (ex Pecunem Gitbud and Naumann 24, lot 299)
9 9     T. Mullally coll.
10 10     Arikantürk SNG 509