RPC VIII, — (unassigned; ID 20262)

 

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Coin type
Volume VIII
Number — (unassigned; ID 20262)
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Sardis
Region Phrygia
City Temenothyrae
Reign Philip I
Magistrate Gaius Arruntius Nikomachos Τiberinianus (high priest and first archon for the second time)
Obverse inscription ΙΕΡΑ ϹΥΝΚΛΗΤΟϹ
Obverse design draped bust of the Senate, left
Reverse inscription ΑΡΟΥΝ ΝΕΙΚΟΜΑΧΟϹ ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥϹ ΑΡΧ Α ΤΟ Β ΤΗΜΕΝΟΘΥΡΕΥϹΙ
Reverse design Heracles holding torch (?), club and lion skin, advancing left towards column surmounted by statue resting on sceptre; Eros pulling rope attached around Heracles leg
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 43 mm
Axis 6
Specimens 11 (7 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    L: 1897,0503.28 BMC 12
    P: Hoffmann 102
    P: 2094
    P: AA.GR.17033
    ✸ B: 18274873, 1845/4963
    G Hunter 1 = SNG 1997
    G Hunter 2 = SNG 1998F
    Vat cast in Winterthur
    Gorny & Mosch 60, 5 Oct. 1992, lot 231
    Leu WA 28, 9 Dec. 2023, lot 2320
    Naumann 79, 7 July 2019, lot 391 = Naumann 76, 7 Apr. 2019, lot 276