7-911

RIC VII, ROME, CRISPUS, UNLISTED ISSUE [VOTA PVBLICA] (Festival of Isis)

  

OBVERSE

CRISPVSNOBCAES [CRISPVS NOB CAES]; bust r., laur., dr., cuir.

REVERSE

VOTA-PVBLICA [VOTA PVBLICA]; Crispus (Anubis?) stg. l., r. holding globe, l. cornucopiae.

NOT IN RIC

UNLISTED ISSUE. Specimen belongs to the Festival of Isis coins (tokens), first struck by Diocletian and continued until the 380s. Not listed in Vagi. Not listed in Alföldi. Note, however, that this coin was heavily tooled.

See: Lars Ramskold, "A die link study of Constantine’s pagan Festival of Isis tokens and affiliated coin-like ‘fractions’: chronology and relation to major imperial events", Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 66, 2016, pp. 157-239.

NOTES

Weight 2.25 g; diameter 16 mm. Coin sold on Gorny & Mosch auction 186 (lot 2318) in March 2010 for EUR 550. Now in the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Collection (reg. no. ID59561).


NOT IN RIC © 2004 Lech Stępniewski