RPC II, 706

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 706
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Uncertain of Bithynia
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Vespasian (Augustus)
Magistrate Marcus Salvidenus Proclus (proconsul)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣ ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ
Obverse design laureate head of Vespasian, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ Μ ΣΑΛΟΥΙΔΗΝΟΥ ΠΡΟΚΛΟΥ ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΟΥ
Reverse design Heracles wrestling with a lion
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Reference Stumpf 372
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Stumpf (p. 212 n. 22) gives the coin to the Koinon of Bithynia, but observes that the design suggests an attribution to Heraclea (a similar design occurs earlier at Heraclea: RPC I, 2088). Heracles types also occur at Cius/Prusias ad Mare (RPC I, 2022-5).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ vA 273