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
Nominative Sabina Augusta
Obverse design draped bust of Sabina with double stephane right
Reverse inscription ΠΟΛΕΜΩΝ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ ϹΜΥΡ
Reverse design prow, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
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)