Bibliothèque nationale de France 5

Physical Description

• Measurements

  • Diameter: 11
  • Weight: 1.15

Typological Description

Source: ASINA type no. 5

• Object Type: Token

• Date Range

  • From Date: 375 AD
  • To Date: 455
• Manufacture: Struck
• Material: Bronze
• Shape: Circle

• Geographic

  • Mint: Rome
  • Region: Italy

References

• Reference: F. Vettori, De vetustate et forma monogrammatis SS. Nominis Jesu, Romae 1747, pp. 60-64.
• Reference: P.M. Paciaudi, Osservazioni sopra alcune singolari e strane medaglie, Napoli 1748.
• 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 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), p. 276, no. 5, Pl. 23.5.

Administrative History

• Collection: BnF

Notes

• Note: Once in the BnF collection; now lost. A photo of the piece was published by Alföldi, who was still able to examine the token.

Rights

• CopyrightHolder: The institution where the token is housed.
• License: All images are copyright of their respective institutions (images)