Bizye, One and one half (CN type 1319)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
138-161 n. Chr.
Issuing entity
ThraceOne and one half in bronze struck at Bizye in Thrace dated 138-161 n. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 1319. Obverse: Head of Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath. Reverse: Nude Silenus standing right, holding wine-skin pouring wine into cantharus in front of him.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Denomination
- One and one half
- Recorded diameter
- 18–19 mm (from 6 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 4.41 g (mean of 4 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Mint
- Bizye
- Region
- Thrace
- Authority type
- City (pseudo-autonomous)
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath.
- Reverse type
- Nude Silenus standing right, holding wine-skin pouring wine into cantharus in front of him.
- Reverse legend
- ΒΙΖVΗΝΩΝ
Identification
- Period
- Roman Imperial Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/1319
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 1319
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Documented
- Issue or mint date
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Documented
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 9311
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 78, nr. 166-167
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 182, nr. 17-22, pl. 2
- external concordanceRPC IV.1, 9311
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution