IVNONI REGINE


Reference : AYC #4 ov Car, RIC 2
Weight: 2.68 grs
Metal: Silver
Diameter: ?
Scarcity: Extremely rare
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

SVLP DRYANTILLA AVG

Bust of Dryantilla to the right, diademed, draped and set on crescent.

IVNONI REGINE

Juno standing left, holding patera with the right hand and a scepter with the left hand.

Photo of a coin sold the 26/05/2011 by Auktionen Münzhandlung & Sonntag, Auction 11, lot 194, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1013227, link to their website: https://www.ams-stuttgart.de/.

''ov Car'' in the reference: AYC #4 ov Car,  means that this coin is overstruck on a denarius of Caracalla. ''ov'' for overstruck. I considered that this coin was overstruck on a denarius of Caracalla because on the reverse we see a remnant of laureate portraiture, indicating a denarius. The legend ANTONINVS begins at the bottom of the portraiture and this portraiture has a head shape close to what we see for Caracalla (small head). Obverse reads ..II COS IIII ... beginning above DRYA. This may correspond a lot of reverses for Caracalla. Furthermore, I add that a coin of his mother was over-struck with the same reverse die, see AYC # 4 Ju. Dom, RIC 2. Interesting point allowing to see which are the stocks of coins used for precise issues. 

I did not notice a legend break on the reverse, the only part of the printed legend being EGINE (same case for AYC #4 Ju. Dom, RIC 2, using the same die). We can therefore neither conclude that a legend break is present, nor be certain that the legend was not IVNO REGINE instead of IVNONI REGINE.