RPC IV.1, 3906 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3906 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Faustina II (Augusta)
Magistrate Dionysos (in office for the sixth time)
Dating c. 147–161, soon after 147
Obverse inscription ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ΑΝΝΕΑ ϹΒΑ(sic)
Obverse design draped bust of Faustina II, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΥ ΤΟ Ϛ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Reverse design Zeus seated, left, holding patera and long sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 6
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1417
Specimens 2 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.15643 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1417, pl. 73 (V68 and R98) = A.E. Cahn 71 (14/10/1931), 725, pl. 28, cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
2 2     P: no number, under 'Unidentified', broken 7.53g