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WHM 2

  • WHM 2
  • Roman
  • Medal/Contorniate
  • Late 4th century AD
  • Copper alloy
  • Circular
  • 39mm
  • 24.98g
  • 6h
  • Alföldi, Kontorniat 654 and pl. 206, 5 (same dies)
  • Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), bought from CNG, 85, lot 1226
  • 2010-09-15
  • Roman. Contorniate, a Roman bronze medal/medallion with a deep furrow on the edge, thought to be struck in the 4th-5th centuries AD under Constantine I and his successors. The obverse represents a voctor in the chariot race. The reverse illustrates a tibicen, piper that plays the tibia a double-flute.

X NIKATOR A . (from right, downward)

charioteer standing facing, head left on ground line, holding whip in right hand and palm branch in left; vase containing two palm branchs on either side; all in intaglio

MAKAR I MVS A

 

Tibicen standing facing on ground line, head right, holding a tibia in each hand; all in intaglio.


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