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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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 75 (and Pl. XXV, 8)
2 2     L BMC 76
3 3     P. de Saxe-Cobourg coll. = RN 1891, 5/14 and Pl. II, 14
4 4     Cop SNG 508
5 5     Winterthur GrMW 3917
6 6     V: GR 27498
7 7     V: GR 27498a
8 8     V-ON SNG Leypold 1201
9 9     B: I-B
10 10     B: Löbb.
11 11     Sardis 256
12 12     CNG EA 206, Alighieri coll., 11 Mar. 2009, lot 257
13 13     MM Deutschland 30, Roland Müller coll., 28 May 2009, lot 786
14 14     MünzZentrum 160, 31 Aug. 2011, lot 509
15 15     ✸ Rauch 92, 22 Apr. 2013, lot 1109
16 16     Tatiș (SNG Turkey 10) 757
17 17     Tatiș (SNG Turkey 10) 758
18 18     Tatiș (SNG Turkey 10) 759
19 19     Istanbul Gökyıldırım 553
20 20     Agora Auctions Numismatic 75 (Buggey), 10 July 2018, lot 183
21 21     H.I. coll.