RPC III, 1974

 

Image of specimen #25

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1974
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Sabina (Augusta)
Magistrate Marcus Antonius Polemon (strategos)
Dating AD 134/5
Obverse inscription ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ
Edition Σαβεῖνα Σεβαστή
Translation Sabina Augusta
Obverse design draped bust of Sabina with double stephane right
Reverse inscription ΠΟΛΕΜΩΝ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ ϹΜΥΡ
Edition Πολέμων ἀνέθηκε Σμυρ(ναῖοις)
Translation Polemon dedicated (this) to the Smyrnaeans
Reverse design prow, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.20 g
Axis 6, 11, 12
Reference Klose XLV, Serie B, 13–21
Specimens 25 (1 in the core collections)
Note Klose 13/1: now G SNG 1505; Klose 14/1:P 2547A.  On the Dionysiac sense of the prow, see C. Kuhn, 'M. Antonius Polemon und die Dionysia. Zur Bedeutung des Prora-Motivs auf kaiserzeitlichen Münzen Smyrnas', Athenaeum 99, 2011, 145–153.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.47056 Klose 13/2
2 2 –21     See Klose 13/1, 14–21
22 22     ETB coll., ex Savoca Blue 27, 28 Dec. 2019, lot 792
23 23     CGT coll. ex G. Rohde coll.
24 24     CGT coll.
25 25     ✸ Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2568 = ETB coll. (ex Gorny and Mosch 233, 6 Oct. 2015, lot 1952; Gorny and Mosch 278, P. Weiss coll., 21 Apr. 2021, lot 3538)