Bibliothèque nationale de France 3

Physical Description

• Conservation State:

• Measurements

  • Diameter: 16
  • Weight: 2.80
• Shape: Circle

Typological Description

Source: ASINA type no. 3

• Object Type: Token

• Date Range

  • From Date: 395
  • To Date: 423

• Obverse

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

• Reverse

  • Deity: Herakles/Hercules
  • Deity: Athena/Minerva

• Geographic

  • Mint: Rome (Uncertain)
  • Region: Italy
• Material: Bronze
• Manufacture: Struck

References

• Reference: F. Vettori, De vetustate et forma monogrammatis SS. Nominis Jesu, Romae 1747, pp. 60-64
• Reference: H. Cohen, Description Historique del Monnaies frappées sous l'empire romain communément appelées médailles imperials, Paris 1892, p. 322, no. 401
• Reference: F. Lenzi, 'Di alcune medaglie religiose del IV secolo', Bilychnis 2, 1913, pp. 113-131
• Reference: A. Alföldi, 'Asina II. Weitere heidnische Neujahrsmünzen aus dem spätantiken Rom', GNS 2 (8), 1951, pp. 92-96
• Reference: C. Mondello, ‘Re-reading the So-called «Asina tokens»: Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity’, AJN 32 (2020), pp. 275-276, no. 3, Pl. 23.3.

Administrative History

• Collection: Bibliothèque nationale de France
• Identifier: 17377

Notes

Rights

• CopyrightHolder: University of Warwick