Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ21 - Vespasian ΕΠΙ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΟΥ ΑΝΘΥ ΕΡΜ
| Issuer | Smyrna (Conventus of Smyrna) |
|---|---|
| Year | 69-78 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Confronted jugate busts of Titus, laureate, to the right, and Domitian, bare-headed, to the left, facing one another in the field. The two imperial heirs are rendered in a characteristic provincial portrait style, with the surrounding Greek legend identifying both princes. The composition employs the confronted bust arrangement common to Flavian-era provincial bronzes of western Asia Minor. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | ΤΙΤΟϹ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ |
| Reverse description | The river god Hermus reclines to the left in a languid, classical pose, his semi-draped figure resting his right arm upon an overturned urn from which water flows. He holds two corn-ears in his right hand and a cornucopia in his left, emblems of the fertile Hermus River valley so vital to the prosperity of Smyrna. The Greek legend naming the proconsul Italicus and the abbreviated ethnic of Smyrna (ΕΡΜ) appears in the field and exergue. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information | Log in to see details |