RPC IV.1, 3908 (temporary)

 

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Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 3908 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Thrace
City Byzantium
Reign Uncertain
Issue Second half of second century AD
Obverse inscription
Obverse design draped bust of Artemis, right; to left, quiver; to right, bow
Reverse inscription ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΩΝ
Reverse design crescent surmounted by star
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Axis 2, 11
Reference Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1908–18, Cop 498$
Specimens 17 (7 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: Graf Prokesch-Osten Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1908, pl. 115 (V1 and R1) = Cat. 158, no. 60 = . Prokesch-Osten, NZ 4 (1872), 199, no. 16
2 2     Bucharest, Library of the Romanian Academy, Numismatic Department 25162 (coll. Iliescu 147) = Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1909, pl. 115 (V1 and R2)
3 3     Basel Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1910/1, pl. 115 (V1 and R3), cast at the Griechisches Münzwerk, Berlin
4 4     Cop: 498
5 5     Münster: M 498
6 6     ✸ P: 359 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1910/4, pl. 115 (V1 and R3)
7 7     B Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1911/1, pl. 115 (V1 and R4) = Cat. 149, no. 61, pierced, 4.30g
8 8     Mu Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1911/2, pl. 115 (V1 and R4)
9 9     Madrid Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1912, pl. 115 (V1 and R5)
10 10     N: Fiorelli 6349 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1913, pl. 115 (V1 and R6), pierced
11 11     Warsaw: 55796 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1914, pl. 115 (V1 and R7), worn
12 12     Bern: 767a Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1915/1, pl. 115 (V2 and R7)
13 13     Warsaw: 55795
14 14     P: 362 Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1916, pl. 115 (V3 and R8)
15 15     Bucharest, Archaeological Institute
16 16     O Schönert-Geiss, Byzantion 1917/2, pl. 115 (V3 and R9)
17 17     Sofia