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ASINA type no. 3
Token
395
423
Alexander III of
Macedon
Bust of Alexander the Great right, wearing lion’s skin.
Hercules, standing to the left, holds a club in his right hand and gives the other hand to Minerva, who stands on the right side, holding a spear with her left hand, a shield at her feet.
Herakles/Hercules
Athena/Minerva
Rome
Italy
Bronze
Struck
The date is controversial and is generally believed to be the reign of Honorius (AD 395-423), since one of the specimens of the Asina series carries the cuirassed and pearl-diademed bust of the emperor Honorius on the obverse.
F. Vettori, 'De vetustate et forma monogrammatis SS. Nominis Jesu', Romae
1747, pp. 60-64
H. Cohen, 'Description Historique des Monnaies frappées sous l’empire
romain communément appelées médailles imperials', VIII, Paris 1892, p. 322, no.
401
F. Lenzi, 'Di alcune medaglie religiose del IV secolo', Bilychnis 2,
1913, pp. 113-131
A. Alföldi, 'Asina II. Weitere heidnische Neujahrsmünzen aus dem
spätantiken Rom', GNS 2 (8), 1951, pp. 92-96
C. Mondello, ‘Re-reading the So-called «Asina tokens»: Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity’, AJN 32 (2020), pp. 275-275, no. 3, Pl. 23.3.