Coin from Nicomedia | Yale University Art Gallery

211–15

Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: 14.99 g, 12:00, 28 mm
Credit Line: Ruth Elizabeth White Fund
Accession Number: 2003.12.4
Geography: Made in Nicomedia, Bithynia
Culture: Roman
Period: 3rd century A.D.
Classification: Numismatics
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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: ANTONEINOS AVGOVSTOS [Gk.] Bust of Caracalla radiate draped cuirassed r. seen from behind.

Reverse Description: NIKOMHDEION DIS NEOKORON City-Tyche seated l. holding an octastyle temple in each hand

Provenance

Frank L. Kovacs, Corte Madera, Calif., to 2003; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Lisa R. Brody and Gail Hoffman, eds., Roman in the Provinces: Art on the Periphery of Empire (Chestnut Hill, Mass.: McMullen Museum of Art, 2014), 250, plate 23

Object copyright

Additional information

coins, money

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