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Image of specimen #25 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1974 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
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. |