RPC IV.1, 8677 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8677 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Dating c. 147–161, soon after 147
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟϹ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Καῖσαρ Ἀντωνεῖνος
Translation Emperor Caesar Antoninus
Obverse design bare head of Antoninus Pius, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΤΥΧΗϹ ΠΟΛΕΩϹ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ (ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ, Ζ reversed)
Edition ἐπὶ Τύχης πόλεως Βυζαντίων
Translation under the Fortune of the city of the Byzantines
Reverse design torch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Average weight 13.41 g
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1382
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: (Löbb) Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1382, pl. 70 (V46 and R65), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin