Description: Thrace, Bizya, Philip II (244 - 249 AD). M IOVΛ ΦIΛIΠΠOC KAICAP; bare head right / BIZVHNΩN; naked Silenos with tail stepping right, holding wineskin on his shoulders from which he pours wine into large krater on ground before him.

Diameter: AE17 mm

Weight: 3,2 g

Grade: gF/gF

Attribution: Jurukova 157, pl. 26

Commentary: scarce; dark grey patina, obverse slightly off-center

History: During the Byzantine times Bizya was a starting point of an aqueduct supplying the city of Constantinople.

Article Number: 054-03-07-41652