Watch List notes:

THRACE. Bizya. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Assarion (Bronze, 23 mm, 6.94 g, 6 h), time of Hadrian, 117-138. ΔΙΟΝΥСω ΚΤΙСΤΗ Dionysos seated right, holding bunch of grapes in his right hand and a grape (?) in his left; behind him, vine. Rev. ΒΙΖΥΗΝΩΝ City-goddess standing left, holding uncertain object in her right hand; at her feet to left, river-god reclining right. RPC III 736. Very rare and with unusually clear details. Near black patina. Minor smoothing, otherwise, good very fine.


From the Ktistes Collection.

This is one of the few cases where a city-founder is depicted as a full figure rather than with a head or bust only.