Dime / Coin / Billon

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.04.0051
Object Name: Coin
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Dime)
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Coins
Materials: Billon
Weight: 12.53 g
Quantity: 1
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Wilfong: Billion coin of Nero.
Verbatim Date: 56 AD
Unit Grid Number: II 202
Component/Room: 00F
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Dime
Production Site: site
Authority: Nero
Mint: Alexandria
Countermark: no
Coin Obverse Description: Laureate head of Nero right
Coin Reverse Description: Roma seated left, holding staff or cornucopiae in left hand, ? in right.
Exhibition Title: Case 22 - Michigan Excavations
Exhibition Curator: Wilfong, Terry
Exhibition Year: 2009
Publication Title: Monete imperiale greche. Numi Augg.Alexandrini Catalogo della Collezione G. Dattari Compilato dal Proprietario, Vol. 1 (Text) & Vol. 2 (Plates)
Publication Author: Dattari, Giannino
Publication Year: 1969 (reprint)
Type Category: Numismatic

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Record: 0000.04.0051
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.04.0051/dscn0914.jpg

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Full citation: "Dime; Coin; Billon." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.04.0051/dscn0914.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.