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Volume | III |
Number | 1738 |
Province | Asia |
Subprovince | Conventus of Pergamum |
Region | Mysia |
City | Pergamum |
Reign | Hadrian |
Person (obv.) | Antinous |
Person (rev.) | Antinous |
Magistrate | Iulius Pollio (strategos) |
Dating | c. 134 |
Obverse inscription | ΑΝΤΙΝΟΟϹ [ΗΡΩϹ] |
Edition | Ἀντίνοος ἥρως |
Translation | Antinous Hero |
Obverse design | bare head of Antinous, left |
Reverse inscription | ΕΠΙ ϹΤΡ Ι ΠΩΛΛΙΩΝΟϹ ΠΕΡΓΑ[ΜΗΝΩΝ] |
Edition | ἐπὶ στρ(ατηγοῦ) Ἰ(ουλίου) Πωλλίωνος Περγαμηνῶν |
Translation | under strategos Iulius Pollio of the Pergamenes |
Reverse design | Antinous as Heracles standing facing, nude, raising right hand, left resting on club |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 33 mm |
Average weight | 20.17 g |
Axis | 12 |
Reference | Blum Provenance incertaine 1 |
Specimens | 2 (1 in the core collections) |
Note | The specimen which appeared in the Freeman and Sear FPL, with a clear ethnic and a magistrate’s signature known under Hadrian and Sabina, is the only coin of Antinous recorded for Pergamum, with the exception of the bronze published by Blum, belonging to the Cop. collection (but not to be found in the SNG), whose attribution was impossible because of its very poor condition |