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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Tesserae| > AS92813
Roman Empire, Ostia (Port of Rome), Italy, Transportation / Shipping Token, Late 1st - 2nd Century A.D.
|Roman| |Tesserae|, |Roman| |Empire,| |Ostia| |(Port| |of| |Rome),| |Italy,| |Transportation| |/| |Shipping| |Token,| |Late| |1st| |-| |2nd| |Century| |A.D.|, In "Shipping Tesserae from Ostia and Minturnae?" in NC 175 (2015), Clive Stannard discusses small square single-sided bronze tesserae, like this one, which are usually found at Ostia, the port of Rome, and at Minturnae, the other major Roman port. He identifies 12 types of these tesserae with additional varieties.
AS92813. Bronze tessera, Stannard Shipping, type 11, obv. die 1.1; 0.571g, 10 x 11 mm, VF, green patina, chipped corner missing, flan crack, earthen encrustations, obverse two draped figures (both female?), possibly within a temple or shrine, the figure on the left stands slightly right with head turned right, figure on the right is standing left crowning the figure on the left, possibly with kalathos on head; reverse blank; ex Phil DeVicchi Collection; very rare; SOLD











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