RPC III, 786

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 786
Province Moesia Inferior
Region Moesia
City Tomis
Reign Uncertain
Issue Coinage without imperial portrait
Dating Nerva/Hadrian
Obverse inscription
Obverse design veiled, corn-wreathed and draped bust of Demeter, right; to right ear of corn
Reverse inscription ΤΟΜΙΤΩΝ
Edition Τομιτῶν
Translation of the Tomitans
Reverse design Dionysus standing left, holding bunch of grapes (?) over panther in right hand and long (filleted?) thyrsus in left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 17 mm
Average weight 2.68 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference AMNG 2539
Specimens 6 (1 in the core collections)
Note Not a complete list. The unusual closed form of Ω is similar to AMNG 2604-5 (Hadrian)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     V: GR 31091
2 2     Soutzo coll. 316
3 3     Soutzo coll. 317
4 4     Helios 2, 25 Nov. 2008, lot 48 (ex Gorny and Mosch 118, 14 Oct. 2002, lot 1613)
5 5     SNG Stancomb 889 = Roma Numismatics EA 71, 28 May 2020, lot 61
6 6     ✸ R. Pudill coll.