Bibliothèque nationale de France 1

Physical Description

• Measurements

  • Diameter: 20
  • Weight: 3.05
• Shape: circle

Typological Description

Source: ASINA type no. 1

• Object Type: Token

• Obverse

  • Portrait: Alexander III of Macedon
  • • Dynasty: Argead Dynasty
    • State: Kingdom of Macedonia
• Material: Bronze
• Manufacture: Struck

• Geographic

  • Mint: Rome (Uncertain)
  • Region: Italy

• Date Range

  • From Date: 395
  • To Date: 423

References

• Reference: D.B. de Montfaucon, L’antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures. Tome second, II, Paris 1719, pp. 372-373
• Reference: H. Cohen, Description Historique des Monnaies frappées sous l’empire romain communément appelées médailles imperials, Paris 1892, VIII, p. 323, no. 403.
• Reference: F. Lenzi, 'Di alcune medaglie religiose del IV secolo', Bilychnis 2, 1913, pp. 113-131
• Reference: A. Alföldi, 'Asina. Eine dritte Gruppe heidnischer Neujahrsmünzen im spätantiken Rom', GNS 2 (7), 1951, pp. 57-66
• Reference: C. Mondello, ‘Re-reading the So-called «Asina tokens»: Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity’, AJN 32 (2020), pp. 274-275, no. 1, pl. 23.1

Administrative History

• Collection: Bibliothèque nationale de France

Notes

• Note: Now lost. Held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France until the date of the publication of Furio Lenzi (1913), who published the photo of the mould of it.

Rights

• CopyrightHolder: University of Warwick