RPC VII.2, 2095

 

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Coin type
Volume VII.2
Number 2095
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Heraclea Pontica
Reign Gordian III
Obverse inscription ΤΟΝ ΚΤΙϹΤΑΝ
Edition τὸν κτίστην
Translation for the founder
Obverse design diademed bust of Heracles, left, wearing lion skin around neck, and holding club
Reverse inscription ΗΡΑΚΛΗΑϹ ΜΑΤΡΟϹ ΑΠΟΙΚΩΝ ΠΟΛΙΩΝ
Edition Ἡρακλήας ματρὸς ἀποίκων πολίων
Translation of Heraclea, mother of colony cities
Reverse design Zeus driving quadriga to right, battling serpent legged giants
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 36 mm
Reference Rec —; Dalaison 2017, Héraclée —
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
Note End of rev. legend partly upside down.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Cast in Winterthur = Th. Prowe, 'Quelques monnaies grecques d'Asie Mineure', Numizmaticeskij Sbornik 3 (1913), p. 168, no. 16, pl. II
2 2     Hecht, British Museum filing cards
3 3     В. В. Шкорпил, Извѣстія Императорской Археологической коммиссіи [Izvestija Imperatorskoj Archeologičeskoj Kommissii] 17 (1905), p. 38, ill. 26 = M.-B. Højberg Bjerg, Money, Power and Communication. Coin circulation in the Bosporan Kingdom in the Roman Period (Wetteren, 2014), p. 392, no. 13