Watch List notes:

Pontus and Bithynia, Nikomedia (?). Antoninus Pius, 138-161. Weight of 6 Pounds (Librae) (Lead, 203x127mm, 2980 g 12), a market weight made in the form of a double-sided stele with a triangular pediment and deeply recessed fields enclosed by an edge with beveled borders, regnal year 20 = 156/7. Within the pediment: figure of Tyche seated left, holding a rudder in her right hand and a scepter in her left. Below, in nine lines: ΕΤΟΥC Κ ΑΥ/ΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟC/ΤΟ Β ΚΑΙCΑΡΟC/Τ ΑΙΛΙΟΥ ΑΔΡΙ/ΑΝΟΥ ΑΝΤωΝΕΙ/ΝΟΥ CΕΒΑCΤΟ/Υ ΕΥCΕΒΟΥC Κ/ΑΙ Μ ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟ/Υ ΚΑΙCΑΡΟC. Rev. In nine lines: ΤΑΜΙΕΥΟΝΤΟ/C Λ ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΛΟ/ΥΠΕΡΚΟΥ ΑΓ/ΟΡΑΝΟΜΟΥΝ/ΤΟC Μ ΠΟΝΤΙ/ΟΥ CΑΒΕΙΝΙΑ/ΝΟΥ ΜΕΝΕΚ/ΡΑΤΟΥC ΛΕΙΤ/ΡΕ ΕΞ ΑΓΟΡΑΙΕ. R. Haensch - P. Weiss, Gewichte mit Nennung von Statthaltern von Pontus et Bithynia, Chiron 35, 2005, pp.452 ff., 2 (this piece). An impressive and massive weight. Dark grey with some remaining earthen encrustations. Some gashes and bangs but, otherwise, good very fine.


Ex Gorny & Mosch 169, 12 October 2008, 477.