Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte · Volume 21 (1971)
Zur Datierung einiger spätantiker Glaspasten
- pp. 131–135, Tf.15
- Article
- German
Abstract
Among the new acquisitions of the Munich State Coin Collection are late antique glass pastes, some of them directly connected with coin issues. The most remarkable imitates a banded agate gem in opaque glass and shows, in intaglio, the Genius Populi Romani with modius, patera and cornucopia, an eagle seated at his feet. The field mark B and the remains of ALE in the exergue assign the coin model to the mint of Alexandria. A comparison of sizes shows that the matrix was not a follis but a piece of the half follis series, which the undivided reverse legend also fits. The paste therefore reproduces a very rare half follis of Domitius Domitianus, the Egyptian usurper who reigned for less than eight months in 295/296.
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Overbeck, Bernhard: Zur Datierung einiger spätantiker Glaspasten. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 21 (1971), pp. 131–135, Tf.15.