Bust of Dionysos right wearing ivy-wreath, with two curled locks coming down over his neck. Dotted border.
Reverse
XVII: Number within dotted border.
Diameter
24.0
Weight
10.0
Reference
Poulsen, B. (2010). 'Coins, a bronze tessera and medallions'. A Roman Villa by Lake Nemi. The Finds. ed. M. Moltesen and B. Poulsen. Rome, Edizioni Quasar: 425-428. (https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000849366)
Di Vita-Evrard, G., L. Musso, F. Mallegni and S. Fontana (1996). L'ipogeo dei Flavi a Leptis Magna presso Gasr Gelda. Libya Antiqua 2: 85-134. (https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000616136)
Munzi, M. (1997). Quadranti anonimi e tessere monetali dalle tombe di Leptis Magna. Annotazione Numismatische 26: 589-593. (https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000614551)
Sexual scene. Male stands facing left, holding partner by the legs and penetrating her, she reclines on her right arm and holds onto his left shoulder with her left.
Reverse
VII: Number within dotted border and wreath.
Diameter
23.5
Weight
5.32
Reference
Richard Ralite, J.-C. (2009). Une tessère érotique (spintria) découverte dans les ateliers de potiers de Sálleles (Aude) près de Narbonne (France, Aude) Numismatic Chronicle 169: 193-197., https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000876121
Sexual scene. Woman or man (?) lays on their front on a bed with head turned back, man penetrates from behind with arched back; candelabra to left.
Reverse
I: Number within dotted border and wreath.
Reference
Richard Ralite, J.-C. (2009). Une tessère érotique (spintria) découverte dans les ateliers de potiers de Sálleles (Aude) près de Narbonne (France, Aude) Numismatic Chronicle 169: 195 n. 9
Sexual scene of oral sex. A nude male reclines left on a kline with his right arm raised over his head; a nude figure is seated facing right before him, holding the first figure's phallus in their right hand.
Reverse
V: Number within dotted border within wreath.
Weight
4.2
Reference
Benassi, F., N. Giordani and C. Poggi (2003). Una tessera numerale con scena erotica da un contesto funerario di Mutina. Numismatica e Antichità classiche 32: 249-273., https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/001246218
Abascal, J. M., A. Alberola, R. Cebrián and I. Hortelano (2010). Segobriga 2009. Resumen de las intervenciones arqueológicas. Cuenca, Consorcio Parque Arqueológico de Segóbriga., Martínez Chico, D. (2019). Tesserae frumentariae, nummariae et 'Spintriae' Hispaniae. Hallazgos y nuevas perspectivas. Revue Numismatique 176: no. 49, https://zenon.dainst.org/Record/000850467