TURS 1980

Typological Description

  • Object Type: Token

  • Date Range

    • From Date: 1 AD
    • To Date: 300 AD
  • Manufacture: Cast
  • Material: Lead
  • Shape: circle

  • Obverse

    • Type: Victory on right side of token, standing left, crowning emperor, who is standing left before her holding a spear in his left hand.

  • Reverse

    • Legend: VTR AVG
    • Type: Legend in two lines.

  • Geographic

References

Notes

  • Note: Rostovtzeff suggested that the legend might be interpreted as Vir(tus) Aug(ustus), but the legend on the British Museum specimen (BMCRLT, TURS Pl. VII 41) clearly reads VTR, not VIR.