RPC IV.2, 25855 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.2
Number 25855 (temporary)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Cibyra
Region Phrygia
City Hierapolis
Reign Uncertain
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': Reign of Trajan to Marcus
Dating c. 98–180
Obverse inscription ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ (Ρ shaped as Ϸ)
Edition Ἱεραπολειτῶν Ἱεραπολειτῶν
Translation of the Hierapolitans
Obverse design head of Dionysus (youthful) wearing ivy wreath, right
Reverse inscription ΕΥΒοϹΙΑ
Reverse design Eubosia(?) in the guise of Tyche standing, left, holding rudder and cornucopia; in inner curve of cornucopia, infant (Ploutos?) sitting, left, raising arm to grapes hanging from cornucopia
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 12.02 g
Axis 12
Reference L. Weber, NC 1913, 153, XXVIII, no. 16(2)
Specimens 4 (3 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Mu SNG 221
2 2     A: 5905b
3 3     B: 1878/855 M. Friedländer, ZfN 7 (1880), pp. 223–4
10 10     NY: 1971.230.79