RPC IV.1, 3911 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3911 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Uncertain
Issue Second half of second century AD
Obverse inscription
Obverse design head of Poseidon, right
Reverse inscription ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Edition Βυζαντίων Βυζαντίων
Translation of the Byzantines
Reverse design dolphin coiling around trident
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 3.54 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1983–5
Specimens 8 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ A: ex coll. Stamules 156 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1981, pl. 121 (V3 and R3), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
2 2     Mu Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1982, pl. 121 (V3 and R4)
3 3     G: I, 395, no. 17 SNG I, no. 875 = Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1983, pl. 121 (V3 and R5)
4 4     B: Coll. Beger Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1984, pl. 121 (V4 and R6) = Cat. 149, no. 64
5 5     Bucharest, Archaeological Institute 439/10 = Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1985, pl. 121 (V4 and R7), found at Istrus
6 6     CGT coll.
7 7     CGT coll.
8 8     CGT coll.