RPC IV.1, 3441 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3441 (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
Edition Ἀθηναίων Ἀθηναίων
Translation of the Athenians
Reverse design Dionysus (bearded) seated, right, wearing ivy-crown, holding long filleted thyrsus and cantharus
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 8.60 g
Axis 3, 9, 11
Reference Kroll, Agora 265, Svoronos, Athens 92.19, BMC 758
Specimens 5 (4 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: I-B NCP, p. 142, pl. CC.II (rev.) = Svoronos, Athens 92.19
2 2     Kroll, Agora 265a, pl. 18
3 3     L: 1947-6-6-996, on reverse, cantharus obscure
4 4     L: BMC 758, pl. XVIII.6, reverse legend obscure, reverse probably without table and thymiaterium, thus this type rather than the similar https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/31686
5 5     B: (Löbb)