RPC IV.1, 5588 (temporary)

 

Image of specimen #14

 

Coin type
Volume IV.1
Number 5588 (temporary)
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Nicomedia
Reign Antoninus Pius
Person (obv.) Antoninus Pius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΝΤΩΝ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒ
Obverse design bare-headed bust of Antoninus Pius wearing paludamentum, right
Reverse inscription ΔΗΜΗΤ ΝΕΙΚΟ
Reverse design veiled Demeter standing, left, holding two ears of corn and long torch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 18 mm
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference Rec 50(1), BMC 12–13
Specimens 21 (16 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: BMC 12, obverse legend with ligature, ΑΝΤΩ{Ν Κ}ΑΙСΑΡ СƐΒ, reverse lightly tooled
2 2     L: BMC 13
3 3     L: 1897-1-4-32 (ex coll. Bunbury)
4 4     L: 1913-10-10-1, obverse legend with ligature, ΑΝΤΩ{Ν Κ}ΑΙСΑΡ СƐΒ
5 5     P: 1287, not illustrated in Rec
6 6     B: I-B
7 7     B: Löbb, obverse legend with ligature, ΑΝΤΩ{Ν Κ}ΑΙСΑΡ СƐΒ
8 8     Mu: 10
9 9     Mu: 10a
10 10     NY: 1944.100.42286
11 11     NY: 1970.142.284
12 12     V: GR 15765, both legends with signs of tooling
13 13     V: GR 15766
14 14     ✸ Yale: ex PRF Lanz 92 (04/06/1999), 637, pl. 25
15 15     C McClean III, 7512, pl. 275.5
16 16     O
17 17     C: Leake 7940, Suppl., p. 74.10 as 'Caracalla'
18 18     Private coll., Baton Rouge
19 19     Private coll. Tom Mullally
20 20     Private coll. Tom Mullally
21 21     Private coll. Frans Diederik