RPC IV.2, 2299 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 2299 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Alabanda
Region Caria
City Sebastopolis
Reign Uncertain
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': Second or early third century AD
Dating c. 100–218
Obverse inscription
Obverse design head of Maenad wearing ivy wreath, right
Reverse inscription ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Edition Σεβαστοπολειτῶν
Translation of the Sebastopolitans
Reverse design cista mystica with half-open lid out of which serpent creeps, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 3.94 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference Études 23, BMC 2–3, Cop 461
Specimens 17 (12 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BMC 2, pl. XXIII.9
2 2     L: BMC 3
3 3     ✸ P: 883 Études 23, pl. XXVII.26
4 4     B: Graf Prokesch-Osten
5 5     B: I-B
6 6     B: (Löbb)
7 7     V: GR 31355
8 8     O: worn, found at the Artemision in Ephesus
9 9     C: Leake 2336, Asiatic Greece, p. 109.2
10 10     Gotha
11 11     J. Hirsch 21 (16/11/1908), coll. Consul Weber, 3164, not illustrated
12 12     Aphrodisias 368
13 13     P: Duplicates
14 14     Mu: 1 SNG 397
15 15     A: ex coll. Soutzos SNG 1480
16 16     vA 2648
17 17     Cop: 461