ALEXSΔ-DRI: Bust of Alexander the Great left, wearing lion’s skin over head, its paws knotted on his chest. The legend shows a mixture of Latin and Greek letters.
Reverse
D N IHV XPS DEI FILI-VS: Donkey standing right suckling a foal; a scorpion above.
Diameter
20.0
Weight
3.05
Reference
A. Alföldi, 'Asina. Eine dritte Gruppe heidnischer Neujahrsmünzen im spätantiken Rom', GNS 2 (7), 1951, pp. 57-66, C. Mondello, ‘Re-reading the So-called «Asina tokens»: Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity’, AJN 32 (2020), pp. 274-275, no. 1, pl. 23.1, D.B. de Montfaucon, L’antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures. Tome second, II, Paris 1719, pp. 372-373, F. Lenzi, 'Di alcune medaglie religiose del IV secolo', Bilychnis 2, 1913, pp. 113-131, H. Cohen, Description Historique des Monnaies frappées sous l’empire romain communément appelées médailles imperials, Paris 1892, VIII, p. 323, no. 403.