RPC III, 990

 

Image of specimen #5

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 990
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Koinon of Bithynia
Reign Hadrian
Person (obv.) Sabina (Augusta)
Issue I. 2
Obverse inscription ϹΑΒΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΗ
Nominative Sabina Augusta
Obverse design draped bust of Sabina, right, with hair coiled and piled on top of head above double stephane
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙ-ΝΟΝ ΒΕΙΘΥΝΙΑϹ
Reverse design temple with four columns on podium of two steps; pediment has star between pellets; within, draped female figure (Empress?) stands right or left, resting with right hand on long sceptre, holding patera in left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 6
Reference Rec 60
Specimens 6 (1 in the core collections)
Note Perhaps the fugure is male: Hadrian?
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 190 Rec pl. XXXVII, 2
2 2     Lanz 97, 22 May 2000, lot 609
3 3     Sarkaya Museum: see H. Güney, 'Unpublished Coins of the Bithynian Koinon', Arkeoloji ve 149‏ (2015), p. 87, no. 16
4 4     ETB coll., ex Naville Auction 22, 1 May 2016, lot 198
5 5     ✸ R. Hoppensteadt coll. = Leu EA 18, 18-20 Dec. 2021, lot 1906
6 6     CGT coll. = Savoca 125th Blue, 29 Jan. 2022, lot 501