RPC IV.1, 3435 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3435 (temporary)
Province Achaea
Region Attica
City Athens
Reign Uncertain
Issue Agora Period VC
Dating 140's or 150's – ca. 175
Obverse inscription
Obverse design head of Athena with traces of drapery, right
Reverse inscription ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ
Reverse design Athena standing in galloping biga, right, brandishing spear, holding shield; below horses to right, giant emerging from earth, about to throw rock
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 6, 7, 8, 10, 12
Reference Kroll, Agora 260, Svoronos, Athens 88.8–9, BMC 706
Specimens 8 (5 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Ex private coll. G. Baltatzi = Svoronos, Athens 88.8
2 2     Ex private coll. Earle Fox = Svoronos, Athens 88.9
3 3     Kroll, Agora 260a, pl. 18
4 4     L: BMC 706, broken, 7.62g, obverse perhaps without traces of drapery
5 5     NY: 1944.100.26174
6 6     ✸ NY: 1944.100.26175
7 7     B: (Fox)
8 8     B: (Löbb)