RPC IV.1, 8696 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 8696 (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 ΑΝΝΕΑ(sic) ΦΑΥϹΤΕΙΝΑ ϹΕΒΑ
Obverse design draped bust of Faustina II, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΝΥϹΟΥ ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΤΟ Ϛ (ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ ΕΠΙ)
Reverse design two tunnies; top one, left; lower one, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Axis 7
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1415, BMC 66
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: BMC 66 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1415, pl. 73 (V67 and R96), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin