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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Thrace & Moesia| > |Nikopolis| > RP84848
Diadumenian, Mid May - 8 June 218 A.D., Nikopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior
|Nikopolis|, |Diadumenian,| |Mid| |May| |-| |8| |June| |218| |A.D.,| |Nikopolis| |ad| |Istrum,| |Moesia| |Inferior|, Nicopolis ad Istrum was founded by Trajan around 101-106, at the junction of the Iatrus (Yantra) and the Rositsa rivers, in memory of his victory over the Dacians. Its ruins are located at the village of Nikyup, 20 km north of Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria. The town peaked during the reigns of Trajan, Hadrian, the Antonines and the Severan dynasty. In 447, the Nicopolis was destroyed by Attila's Huns. In the 6th century, it was rebuilt as a powerful fortress enclosing little more than military buildings and churches, following a very common trend for the cities of that century in the Danube area. It was finally destroyed by the Avar invasions at the end of the 6th century.
RP84848. Bronze AE 28, H-H-J Nikopolis 8.25.3.1 (R3, same dies); SNG Cop 280; AMNG I/1 1833; Moushmov 1360; Varbanov I 3775 (R3); BMC Thrace -, Choice VF, dark sea-green patina, well centered, some legend slightly weak, edge cracks, central cavities, Nicopolis ad Istrum (Nikyup, Bulgaria) mint, weight 13.059g, maximum diameter 27.8mm, die axis 180o, consular legate Statius Longinus, 217 - 218; obverse K M OΠEΛ ANTΩN ΔIAΔOVMENIANOC, bare-headed, laureate, and draped bust right; reverse VΠ CTATIOV ΛONΓINOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN, Hera standing left, phiale in right hand, long scepter vertical behind in left, ΠR-OC divided low across field, ICTPO in exergue; SOLD










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