Description: Domitian (?); Diassarion; 3 countermarks Prusias ad Hypium: head of empress in oval punch, AV K TP in rectangular punch, ΠPY in square punch.

Diameter: AE26 mm

Weight: 8,24 g

Grade: worn smooth/worn smooth c/m: , Poor, aVF, F

Attribution: cf. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/397934 (same countermarks); M. J. Price, Countermarks at Prusias ad Hypium, NC 1967, 37-42; Weiser, Köln 114 f.; Howgego 217, Howgego 608, Howgego 630

Commentary: rare countermarks; grey-bronze patina

History: Three Roman emperors, (Hadrian, Caracalla and Elagabalus) visited the city in person in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.

Article Number: 007-01-06-45489