Tanini 1791 ASINA

Typological Description

Source: ASINA type no. 7

• Object Type: Token

• Date Range

  • From Date: 395 AD
  • To Date: 423

• Geographic

  • Mint: Rome
  • Region: Italy
• Manufacture: Struck
• Shape: Circle
• Material: Bronze

References

• Reference: G. Tanini, Numismatum Imperatorum Romanorum a Trajano Decio ad Constantinum Draconem ab Anselmo Bandurio editorum Supplementum, Rome, p. 352, pl. VIII.
• Reference: F. Lenzi, 'Di alcune medaglie religiose del IV secolo', Bilychnis 2, 1913, pp. 113-131.
• Reference: C. Mondello, ‘Re-reading the So-called «Asina tokens»: Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity’, AJN 32 (2020), pp. 277, no. 7, Pl. 23.6.

Notes

• Note: This specimen existed as part of G. Tanini's collection and is currently lost. The token is known only through the description and the drawing published by G. Tanini (1791).

Rights

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