[Rec Gen 68]Prusias ad Hypium, Bythinia, about 25Km south of the Black Sea, modern Üskübü in Turkey.
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| RPC 660 | Domitian, AE27 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. AD 81-96. 10.73 g. AYT ΔOMITIANOΣ KAIΣAΡ ΣEBAΣTOΣ ΓEΡM, laureate head right. / ΣEBAΣTH OMONOIA, Demeter or Homonoia, veiled, standing left, holding corn-ears and sceptre. Serpent at foot left. RPC II 660; SNG von Aulock 278 and 885. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 676 | Domitian Brass AE34 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. AVT ΔOMITIANOΣ KAIΣAΡ ΣEBAΣTOΣ ΓEΡM, laureate head right / ΣEBAΣTH OMONOIA, Eirene (?) standing left holding branch & cornucopiae. RecGen 6. | Text | Image | |
| RPC 684 | Domitian AE28 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. AYT ΔOMITIANOΣ KAIΣAΡ ΣEB ΓEΡ, laureate head right / ΣEBAΣTH OMONOIA, veiled bust of Demeter left, with two corn ears and poppy before neck. RPC 684. | Text | Image | |
| SNG von Aulock 867cf | Trajan AE34 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. AVT NEΡ TΡAIANOΣ KAIΣAΡ ΣEB ΓEΡ, laureate head right / EIΠHNH ΣEBAΣTH, Eirene standing left holding branch (?) & cornucopiae. | Text | Image | |
| Weber 4930 | Marcus Aurelius AE22 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. M AYΡHΛIOC OYHΡOC KAICAΡ, bare bust right / ΠΡOCIEΩN ΠΡOC YΠIO, Asklepios standing left, resting on serpent-entwined staff. Weber 4930; Robinson 4 in NC 1921; BMC 1920-5-16-52. | Text | Image | |
| RecGen 35 | Faustina II, Prusias Ad Hypium, Bithynia. AE17. ΦAYCTEINA CEBACTH, draped bust right / ΠΡOYCIEΩN ΠΡOC YΠIΩ, Demeter standing left, holding long torch and corn-ears. RecGen. 35; BMC 3; RPC online 4858. | Text | Image | |
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| RecGen 43 | Lucius Verus, AE 40 mm. medallion of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. ca. AD 164-166. 50.96 g. AVT KAI AΡM Λ AVΡ OVHΡOC, bare head right, slight drapery on left shoulder / ΠΡOVCIEΩN ΠΡOC VΠIΩ, Herakles, naked, standing left, grasping the neck of one of the serpents' heads of the Lenean hydra and wielding club; two dragons' legs on the hydra's body, the claws of one pincing into Herakles' leg. Tall narrow column surmounted by statue in right field. RecGen 43; Mionnet II, 425; Paris 1593. | Text | Image | |
| Pecunem 22, 126 | Geta, AE28 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. AD 209-211. 12.29 gr. Π CEΠTI ΓETAC K, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / ΠΡOYCIEΩN ΠΡOC IΠIΩ, Dionysos sitting left on a rock, leaning backwards, looking right, right arm over his head and with thyrsos in left arm. Unpublished. Pecunem 22, 126. | Text | Image | |
| Burstein 570 | Macrinus, AE30 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. AD 217-218. AYT K M OΠ CEOYHΡ (MAKΡEINOC AYΓ), or similar, laureate head right, two countermarks: laur. head right (Howgego 65) and value mark I-Digamma (not in Howgego) / ΠΡOYCIEΩN ΠΡOC YΠIΩ, Herakles right, trying to grasp the belt of Hippolyte, standing left, bipennis on ground at her feet, I in lower centre. Unpublished composition of this labour of Herakles for Macrinus. Burstein Collection 570. | Text | Image | |
| RecGen 67 | Maximinus I, AE29 of Prusias ad Hipium, Bithynia. AD 235-238. Γ IOY OYH MAXIMEINOC AYΓ, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Countermark: head of emperor right / ΠΡOYCIEΩN ΠΡOC YΠIΩ, draped bust of Kieros right. Countermark: Value mark IB (12 Assaria). RecGen 67; SNG von Aulock 7166; Imhoof KM 2; Weiser 19. | Text | Image | |
| RecGen 68 | Maximus Caesar AE 31 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. Γ IOV OVH MAXIMOC K, draped bust right [cm: bearded bust of Herakles? right] / ΠΡOVCIAEΩN ΠΡOC YΠIΩ, draped bust of hero Kieros (or founder) right, long hair down neck. SNGvA 907. | Text | Image | |
| RecGen 69 | Maximus, AE23 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. AD 235-238. 6.77 g. Γ IOYΛ OYHΡ MAXIMOC K, bare-headed, draped and cuirassed bust right / ΠΡOYCIEΩN ΠΡOC YΠIΩ, Herakles standing, one leg bent at the knee, his head and body facing Antaeos and lifting him off the ground. RecGen 69; Kurth Herakles 743. | Text | Image | |
| RecGen 69 var | Maximus Caesar AE25 of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. Γ IOV OVH MAΞIMOC K, draped bust right [cm: bearded bust of Herakles? right] / ΠΡOYCIAEΩN ΠΡOC YΠIΩ, Herakles standing right, with the Erymanthian Boar on his shoulders. Apparently unpublished. Not in RecGen, its supplements, Paris etc. RecGen 69 var (reverse type). | Text | Image | |
| RecGen 78 | Gallienus, AE of Prusias ad Hypium, Bithynia. 10.48 g. AV P LI GAL[LHNOS] CEB, laureate, draped, cuirassed bust right / PROYSIEWN PROS YPIW, city gate with arched doorway, tower to left and right each with arched doorway, H below. RecGen 78; SNG von Aulock 915; Price/Trell, p. 224, Fig. 505. | Text | Image | |
| See also: | Entry for Prusias ad Hypium on the Digital Historia Numorum | |||
| Search for Prusias Ad Hypium at AncientImports.com | ||||
| Search for Hypium in the British SNG Volumes' Database at the Fitzwilliam Museum | ||||
| Search for Prusias Ad Hypium in the ANS Database | ||||
| Search for Hypium at AsiaMinorCoins.com | ||||
| Search for Hypium in the RPC IV (Antonines) database at the Ashmolean Museum | ||||
