Roman Bronze/Copper Alloy 1 Assarion of Sardis
- Date
- 10 BC - 14 AD, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- 1986.0046
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- 1 Assarion
- Coin Mint
- Sardis
- Issuers
- Augustus, Mousaios
- Officina
- Has Mint Mark
- no
- Has Control Mark
- no
- Has Monogram
- no
- Has Countermark
- no
- Hoard
- Monograph 13 Catalog No.
- 147
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
- This coin type: Obverse: Head r. bare ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟY; Reverse: Demoi of Pergamum and Sardis each holding a scepter and clasping hands ΣΑΡΔΙΑΝΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΕΡΓΑΜΗΝΩΝ ΜΟΥΣΑΙΟΣ.
- Condition
- Worn
- Dimensions
- Weight: 3.54g; Diameter: 18mm.
- Comments
- Last coin n.s.; fieldnotes record type but not the legend. Mousaios is recorded as strategos in Sardis in 5 BC, (Sardis VII no. 8 pt. 1). RPC I p. 487 suggested that the portrait on this coin is similar to that on coins minted by the magistrates Damas and Diodoros, and “a similar issue from Pergamon (2362), dating to about AD 1.”.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- RPC I: 2988
- Author
- JDE