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Obverse. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Reverse. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy 1 Assarion of Smyrna
- Date
- 77 AD - 78 AD, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- 1984.0156
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- 1 Assarion
- Coin Mint
- Smyrna
- Issuers
- Titus, Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, Julia and Agron Eusbes
- Officina
- Has Mint Mark
- no
- Has Control Mark
- no
- Has Monogram
- no
- Has Countermark
- no
- Hoard
- Monograph 13 Catalog No.
- 125
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
- This coin type: Obverse: Head r. laur. TITOC AYTOKPATΩΡ ΚΑΙCΑΡ; Reverse: Herakles standing holding kantharos, club and lionskin ITAΛΙΚΩ ΑΝΘΥ ΙΟYΛΙΑC ΑΓΡΩN ΖΜΥΡ.
- Condition
- Worn
- Dimensions
- Weight: 4.22g; Diameter: 22mm.
- Comments
- Klose (1987) called this a 2 assaria coin; RPC II p. 24 and Johnston 2007 table 74, 1 assarion.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- RPC II: 1007; Klose 1987 p. 234 XXXVI
- Author
- JDE