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Image of specimen #1 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/975 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | II |
Number | 975 |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Smyrna |
Region | Ionia |
City | Phocaea |
Reign | Vespasian |
Person (obv.) | Vespasian (Augustus) |
Obverse inscription | ΟΥΕϹΠΑϹΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ |
Edition | Οὐεσπασιανός Καῖσαρ |
Translation | Vespasian Caesar |
Obverse design | laureate head of Vespasian, right |
Reverse inscription | ΦΩ |
Edition | Φω(καιέων) |
Translation | of the Phocaeans |
Reverse design | female figure standing, left holding patera and cornucopia; to left, dolphin |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 15 mm |
Average weight | 3.37 g |
Axis | 6 |
Specimens | 1 (1 in the core collections) |
Note | The identity of the female figure is not clear. It resembles that on coins of Antoninus Pius, identified as Homonoia (so BMC 137), but the personification of Phocaea seems equally possible. |