RPC III, 2393

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 2393
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Sardis
Region Lydia
City Sardis
Reign Trajan
Magistrate Lucius Iulius Libonianus (strategos)
Obverse inscription ϹΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ
Edition Σαρδιανῶν
Translation of the Sardians
Obverse design draped bust of young Dionysus, right, wearing ivy-wreath
Reverse inscription ϹΤΡ ΛΟ ΙΟ ΛΙΒΩΝΙΑΝΟΥ
Edition στρ(ατηγοῦ) Λο(υκίου) Ἰο(υλίου) Λιβωνιανοῦ
Translation of the strategos Lucius Iulius Libonianus
Reverse design filleted thyrsus; in field, right, bee
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 16 mm
Average weight 2.64 g
Axis 1, 6, 7, 12
Reference LS 139/13, BMC 75–6, Sardis 256
Specimens 21 (7 in the core collections)
Note For Libonianus, see M.Hallmannsecker, ‘The Ionian Koinon and the Koinon of the 13 Cities at Sardis’, Chiron 50 (2020), pp. 1-27, at 10-11: he is mentioned on an inscription of 'the Antonine period'.
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