Token Specimens from the Ancient Mediterranean: Bricault & Mondello specimen no. I86.1

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Obverse: ISIS F-ARIA or ISIS-FA-RIA - Draped bust of Isis l., wearing a basileion and holding a sistrum in her r. hand and a patera in her l.

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Reverse: VOTA-PVBLICA or VOTA P-VBLICA - Serapis, wearing a modius, standing front, head turned l., with his r. hand raised and holding a globe in his l.

Physical Description

Measurements
- Diameter: 18
Axis: 6

Typological Description

Source: Bricault & Mondello type no. 242

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. 345, pls. X, 20, and XVI, 28.

Administrative History

Collection: National Museum of Denmark, The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Copenhagen

Description

Pierced at 10 o’clock.

Notes

Note: Once held in the National Museum of Denmark; now lost. A photo of the specimen was published by Andreas Alföldi (1937), who was still able to examine it.

Rights

CopyrightHolder: The institution where the token is housed.
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Bricault & Mondello specimen no. I86.1