2015 (June 17): R. Weir studied and described, with reference to KenchreaiIII.
Contributor Notes
2023: JLR refined description.
Label or tag text
same hoard as A 1887
Preservation description
Wear: G. Roughly 25% snapped off from obverse bottom left; extensive, slight pitting and sparse fissuring to cracking. Faint incipient pale blue bronze disease on both faces.
Published as
KenchreaiIII, p. 61, no. 958 (R. Hohlfelder identified as “Uncertain, Late Roman/Early Byzantine“)
Pearl-diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of emperor to right
Obverse Inscription
[D N] ṬḤẸỌḌỌ-[SIVS P F AVG]
Reverse Description
Emperor standing to left on ship, holding phoenix on globe with right hand and standard with left hand, stepping on captive in prow, with Victoria in stern
Reverse Inscription
[VIR]ṬṾṢ - Ạ[VGGG] ; to left, A (traces) ; in exergue, ṬẸṢ
