RPC VIII, — (unassigned; ID 48687)

 

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Coin type
Volume VIII
Number — (unassigned; ID 48687)
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Bizya
Reign Philip I
Person (obv.) Philip I (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ Μ ΙΟΥΛ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ΑΥΓ
Nominative Imperator Marcus Iulius Philippus Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I, left, seen from front
Reverse inscription ΒΙΖΥΗΝΩΝ
Reverse design city wall with ten towers and half-opened city gate, flanked by two towers; above, gallery of seven arches containing statues and surmounted by quadriga right, flanked by two figures; to left of the gate, relief of Thracian rider, to right, relief of standing figures (Charites or nymphs); inside the wall, two basilicae, three monumental columns with statues and three other buildings
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 40 mm
Axis 2
Reference Jurukova, Bizye 137; Tachev, Bizija 19
External URI(s) https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1559
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    ✸ B: 18200684, Löbb. Nymphen u. Chariten p. 185