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- Co 2016 (Late Roman bronze coin of Odovacar from Ravenna) [permalink] [show fewer links]
- Type
- Inventoried Coin
- Not after (date)
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477
- Not before (date)
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477
- Logical part of
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Chicago/Indiana/Vanderbilt Excavations Inventoried Coins
- Typological identification
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Coin
- Comparanda
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Co 383
- Comparanda
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RIC X Odovacar 3502, p. 442
- Comparanda
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BMCVandals Ostrogoths: Odovacar 10-11, p. 45, pl. V:8-9
- Comparanda
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Kraus1928, p. 58, Odovacar 36, pl. II
- Comparanda
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LRBC II.588, p. 58
- Comparanda
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MECI Italy: Odovacar 64, p. 422, pl. 3
- Description
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Undersized flan for type.
- Preservation comment
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Wear: aG/F. Deep cracked edge and separating flan, to a ragged state; extensive, moderate pitting and circumferential fissuring.
- Axis (1-12)
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2
- Has denomination
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Nummus
- Numismatic Authority
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Odoacer (king of Italy, 476-493)
- Numismatic Diameter (mm)
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9.0
- Numismatic Mint
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Ravenna
- Numismatic Weight (g)
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0.44
- Obverse Description
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Bare-headed(?), draped, and cuirassed bust of emperor to right
- Obverse Inscription
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ODO-[VAC]
- Reverse Description
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Bold monogram of emperor within wreath
- Belongs to Historical Period
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Late Roman (Historical Period)
- Material
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Bronze (Material)
- Obverse Photograph
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- Reverse Photograph
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