RPC IV.1, 4546 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 4546 (temporary)
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Bizya
Reign Antoninus Pius
Issue 'Pseudo-autonomous': Reign of Antoninus Pius
Obverse inscription
Obverse design head of Dionysus (youthful) wearing ivy wreath, right
Reverse inscription ΒΙΖΥΗΝΩΝ (Ζ reversed)
Reverse design Silenus standing, left, holding cantharus and wineskin
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 18 mm
Axis 6, 7
Reference Jurukova, Bizye168–9, BMC 1–2
Specimens 6 (5 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: B-I Jurukova, Bizye 168, pl. 27, cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
2 2     L: TC,p90.1.Biz BMC 2
3 3     G: I, 438, no. 1 SNG I, no. 900
4 4     V: GR 8433 Jurukova, Bizye 169, pl. 27
5 5     L: 1840,0921.344 BMC 1
6 6     Nomos Obolos 16 (11/10/2020), The Vineyard Collection, 472 = Antioch Associates Buy or Bid Sale 42 (2003), 94