RPC VIII, — (unassigned; ID 70116)

 

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Coin type
Volume VIII
Number — (unassigned; ID 70116)
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 and cuirassed bust of Philip I, right, seen from front, with eagle on cuirass and aegis on left shoulder
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 37 mm
Reference Jurukova, Bizye
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
    ✸ Kress 122, 30 May 1962, lot 225