Moesia inferior, Nikopolis ad Istrum, Diadumenian, unpublished
Diadumenian AD 218
AE 26, 15.6g
struck under legate Statius Longinus
obv. M OPEL ANTWN DIA - DOVMENIANOC (?)
Bust, draped and cuirassed, laureate, r.
rev. VP CTATIOV LONGINOV NIKOPOLIT / WN PROC ICT / [RON]
Youthful mountain-god, nude to hips, sitting l. on rocks, holding branch in 
raised r. hand and reed in l. hand resting on the rocks
unpublished (not in AMNG), but obv. and rev. (Macrinus!) dies known from other types!
F+/about VF, some pitting on obv.

Because the figure on the rev. has no vase with flowing water it is rather a mountain-god than a river-god! This type occurs in 2 subtypes. This is the somewhat rarer type with CTATIOV, nude youth and without 'bow' above rock in an unknown composition of dies (Thanks to Pat Lawrence!).


Contributed by Hans-Joachim Hoeft, December, 2006.