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Image of specimen #1 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/9/2020 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | IX |
Number | 2020 |
Province | Syria Phoenice |
Region | Phoenicia |
City | Tyre |
Reign | Trebonianus Gallus |
Person (obv.) | Volusian (Augustus) |
Obverse inscription | IMP C C VIB VOLVSIANVS AVG |
Edition | Imp(erator) C(aesar) G(aius) Vib(ius) Volusianus Aug(ustus) |
Translation | Emperor Gaius Vibius Volusianus, Augustus |
Obverse design | laureate and cuirassed bust of Volusian, right, seen from front |
Reverse inscription | COL TYRO METRO, ΔΙ-Δω |
Edition | col(onia) Tyro metro(polis) Διδώ |
Translation | colony at Tyre, metropolis; Dido |
Reverse design | (Dido building Carthage) Dido standing left, holding rule and sceptre, in front a city gate; above the gate, a mason at work; below, a man to right digging with a pick; in field above, murex shell; on right palm tree |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 27 mm |
Average weight | 15.82 g |
Axis | 6, 12 |
Reference | BMC 447 |
Specimens | 2 (2 in the core collections) |