Coin from Amorium, Phrygia, Methymna, Lesbi Mint, possibly by: Methymna
Mint, possibly by: Amorium (Phrygia)
Honorand: Gaius Caesar, 20 B.C.–A.D. 4
Honorand: Lucius Caesar, 17 B.C.–A.D. 2

17 B.C.–A.D. 4

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

5.06 g, 12:00, 20 mm

Credit Line

Ruth Elizabeth White Fund

Accession Number

2004.6.314

Geography

Possibly made in Amorium, Phrygia, or Methymna, Lesbi

Culture

Roman

Period

1st century B.C.–A.D. 1st century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: Bare head of Augustus, r.; before, lituus; [SE]BASTO[S]

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Jugate heads of C. and L. Caesar, r.; AMOR[IANON AL]EXANDR[OS] (or, METHYMNAION ALEXANDROS, see notes)
Provenance
Professor Dr. Peter Robert Franke and Leonore Franke, Munich, from about 1960 to 2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

coins

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