ASINA type no. 5

Typological Description

Object Type: Token
Date Range
- From Date: 375 AD
- To Date: 455
Manufacture: Struck
Material: Bronze
Shape: Circle
Obverse
- Legend: D N V [...]
- Type: Laureate, draped, cuirassed bust of a Roman emperor.
Reverse
- Type: Donkey standing right suckling a foal; a scorpion above.
- Legend: No legend
Geographic
- Mint: Rome
- Region: Italy

References

Reference: F. Vettori, De vetustate et forma monogrammatis SS. Nominis Jesu, Romae 1747, pp. 60-64.
Reference: P.M. Paciaudi, Osservazioni sopra alcune singolari e strane medaglie, Napoli 1748.
Reference: C. Cavedoni, 'Médailles du temps d’Honorius portant des signes chrétiens mêlés à des types païens', Revue Numismatique 1857, pp. 309-314.
Reference: F. Lenzi, 'Di alcune medaglie religiose del IV secolo', Bilychnis 2, 1913, pp. 113-131.
Reference: A. Alföldi, 'Asina II. Weitere heidnische Neujahrsmünzen aus dem spätantiken Rom', GNS 2 (8), 1951, pp. 92-96.
Reference: C. Mondello, ‘Re-reading the So-called «Asina tokens»: Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity’, AJN 32 (2020), p. 276, no. 5, Pl. 23.5.

Notes

Note: This type is documented by a single specimen, whose bad condition does not allow us to identify the Roman emperor represented on the obverse. The following hypotheses have been proposed about the legend accompanying the portrait of the emperor on the obverse: IOVIS FILIO (F. Vettori, De vetustate et forma monogrammatis SS. Nominis Jesu, Romae 1747, pp. 60-64); D N VALENTINIANVS (P.M. Paciaudi, Osservazioni sopra alcune singolari e strane medaglie, Napoli 1748, p. 42); D N HONORIVS P F AVG (C. Cavedoni, Médailles du temps d’Honorius portant des signes chrétiens mêlés à des types païens, Revue Numismatique 1857, p. 311).

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