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!

Æ22 - Marcus Aurelius ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΟΚ (ΡΩΝ) (Ζ shaped as エ)

Issuer Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus)
Year 161-169
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight 7.11 g
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 Log in to see details
Obverse script Log in to see details
Obverse lettering Log in to see details
Reverse description A young bull (calf) walking to the left, rendered in profile with musculature indicated by incised lines, occupying the central field. The animal, a sacred bovine type closely associated with the coinage and religious traditions of Cyzicus, is depicted with head lowered. A dotted border frames the design. The encircling Greek legend, reading ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ ΝΕΟΚΟ(ΡΩΝ), identifies the city as a neokoros — an honorific title denoting the city's role as an official keeper of an imperial cult temple — with the notable local die variant of the Ζ rendered in a form resembling the Japanese katakana character エ.
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Plain
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage ND (161-169)
Additional information Log in to see details

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE