Bibliothèque nationale de France 2

Physical Description

• Conservation State:

• Measurements

  • Weight: 3.19
  • Diameter: 16
• Shape: Circle

Typological Description

Source: ASINA type no. 2

• Object Type: Token

• Obverse

  • Portrait: Alexander III of Macedon
  • • Dynasty: Argead Dynasty
    • State: Kingdom of Macedonia

• Geographic

  • Mint: Rome (Uncertain.)
  • Region: Italy

• Date Range

  • From Date: 395
  • To Date: 423
• Manufacture: Struck
• Material: Bronze

References

• Reference: F. Vettori, De vetustate et forma monogrammatis SS. Nominis Jesu, Romae 1747, pp. 60-64
• Reference: C. Cavedoni, 'Médailles du temps d’Honorius portant des signes chrétiens mêlés à des types païens', Revue Numismatique 1857, pp. 309-314
• 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), p. 275, no. 2, Pl. 23.2.

Administrative History

• Collection: Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Identifier: 17375

Notes

Rights

• CopyrightHolder: University of Warwick