Bronze coin of Crispina (GER0101)
Dublin Core
Title
Bronze coin of Crispina (GER0101)
Description
Civic bronze coin from Gerasa (180-182 CE?) depicting Crispina (empress, wife of Commodus).
Source
Publisher
Roman Provincial Coinage Online IV no.6613 (temporary #) =American Numismatic Society no.1944.100.69377
Date
Rights
Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford), via Roman Provincial Coinage Online (http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/)
Format
Bronze
Language
Identifier
GER0101
IIIF Item Metadata
UUID
303e24e6-503c-4bce-8929-46c331278998
Numismatics Item Type Metadata
Metal
Bronze
Weight (g)
9.43-12.15g (pictured=12.04g)
Diameter (mm)
23-25mm (pictured=24mm)
Province
Arabia
Region
Decapolis
Obverse Type
Draped bust of of Crispina, facing right
Reverse Type
Draped bust of Artemis-Tyche (labeled), facing right, with a quiver over her right shoulder
Obverse Legends
KPICΠΙΝΑ CEBACTH (Crispina Sebasta)
Reverse Legends
ARTEMICTVXHΓΕΡΑCWN (Artemis Tyche of the Gerasenes)
Name 1
Role 1
Notes
The design of the Crispina type is very similar to depictions of the earlier empress Lucilla (GER0117), wife of Lucius Verus.
Selected Bibliography
Roman Provincial Coinage Online (http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/); temp #6613 [ http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6613/]
American Numismatic Society no.1944.100.69377 [http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.69377]
Meshorer, Y., G. Bijovsky, and W. Fischer-Bossert. 2013. Coins of the Holy Land: the Abraham and Marian Sofaer Collection of the American Numismatic Society and the Israel Museum. New York; The American Numismatic Society.
SNGANS 6. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, USA, the College of the American Numismatic Society, Part 6: Palestine-South Arabia. New York: American Numismatic Society.
Spijkerman, A. 1978. The Coins of the Decapolis and Provincia Arabia. Jerusalem: Franciscan Press. (pp.164-165, no.27)
American Numismatic Society no.1944.100.69377 [http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.69377]
Meshorer, Y., G. Bijovsky, and W. Fischer-Bossert. 2013. Coins of the Holy Land: the Abraham and Marian Sofaer Collection of the American Numismatic Society and the Israel Museum. New York; The American Numismatic Society.
SNGANS 6. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, USA, the College of the American Numismatic Society, Part 6: Palestine-South Arabia. New York: American Numismatic Society.
Spijkerman, A. 1978. The Coins of the Decapolis and Provincia Arabia. Jerusalem: Franciscan Press. (pp.164-165, no.27)
Citation
“Bronze coin of Crispina (GER0101),” WIRE: Women in the Roman East Project, accessed April 24, 2024, https://www.wireproject.org/items/show/5.