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
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

Number Number 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)