Coin of Julia Domna from Nysa-Scythopolis (SCY0106)
Dublin Core
Title
Coin of Julia Domna from Nysa-Scythopolis (SCY0106)
Description
Local bronze coin of Julia Domna, mother of the emperor Commodus, from Nysa-Scythopolis, 215/216 CE
Source
Publisher
American Numismatic Society 1944.100.69165 [http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.69165]
Date
Rights
American Numismatic Society 1944.100.69165
Format
Bronze
Language
Identifier
SCY0106
Numismatics Item Type Metadata
Metal
Bronze
Weight (g)
6.46-9.21g (pictured=9.21g)
Diameter (mm)
21-23mm (pictured=22mm)
Province
Syria Palaestina
Region
Decapolis
Era Used
Local era (63 BCE)
Obverse Type
Bust of Julia Domna, facing right
Reverse Type
Tyche, standing draped and wearing a turreted crown, facing right, holding a scepter and cornucopia, and resting one foot on the figure of a river god.
Obverse Legends
IOVΛΙΑ ΔΟΜΝΑ CE (Julia Domna Sebaste)
Reverse Legends
NVC CKV IEP ACV (Nysa-Scythopolis, sacred and inviolable); ΘEC (date=279)
Name 1
Notes
Spijkerman (1978, 196-197, no.29) publishes a second, similar coin, with an obverse legend of NVCKV, but likewise dated 219; weight=7.04g, and diameter=17mm
Selected Bibliography
American Numismatic Society 1944.100.69165
Spijkerman, A. 1978. The Coins of the Decapolis and Provincia Arabia. Jerusalem: Franciscan Press. (pp.196-197, nos.28-29).
Meshorer, Y., G. Bijovsky, and W.Fischer-Bossert. 2013. Coins of the Holy Land: The Abraham and Marian Sofaer Collection at the American Numismatic Society and the Israel Museum (Volume 1), New York: The American Numismatic Society. (pg.32, no.184).
Spijkerman, A. 1978. The Coins of the Decapolis and Provincia Arabia. Jerusalem: Franciscan Press. (pp.196-197, nos.28-29).
Meshorer, Y., G. Bijovsky, and W.Fischer-Bossert. 2013. Coins of the Holy Land: The Abraham and Marian Sofaer Collection at the American Numismatic Society and the Israel Museum (Volume 1), New York: The American Numismatic Society. (pg.32, no.184).
Citation
“Coin of Julia Domna from Nysa-Scythopolis (SCY0106),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wireproject.org/items/show/71.