Token Specimens from the Ancient Mediterranean: Bricault & Mondello specimen no. I56.1

Obverse: ISIS F-ARIA - Draped bust of Isis r., wearing a basileion

Reverse: VOTA-PVBLICA - Harpocrates standing l., naked but for a mantle over his l. shoulder, setting his r. forefinger to his mouth and holding cornucopia in his l. hand

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 14
Axis: 12

Typological Description

Source: Bricault & Mondello type no. 202

Object Type: Token
Date Range
- From Date: 361 AD
- To Date: 394 AD
Manufacture: Struck
Shape: Circle
Geographic
- Mint: Rome
- Region: Italy

References

Reference: A. Alföldi, Isis-szertartások Rómában a negyedik század keresztény császárai alatt = A Festival of Isis in Rome under the Christian Emperors of the IVth Century (Dissertationes Pannonicae ex Instituto Numismatico et Archaeologico Universitatis de Petro Pàzmàny Nominatae Budapestinensis Provenientes, Series II, 7), Budapest 1937, no. 282, pls. IX, 41, and XVII, 30.

Administrative History

Collection: Once Münzhandlung Basel coll.

Description

Pierced at 6 o’clock.

Rights

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

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Bricault & Mondello specimen no. I56.1

Physical Description

Measurements

Typological Description

Date Range

Geographic

References

Administrative History

Description

Rights

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