NM·7

From Lexicon Leponticum

Coin Type
Coin Type:	drachma, Lejeune A7, Pautasso 9 A-C, Arslan XI-XII
Description:	obverse: abstract right-facing female head, reverse: abstract right-facing lion
Material (main component):	silver
Material Composition:	43.5% silver, 45.0% copper, 8.92% tin, 2.5% lead, and traces of antimony (hoard of Manerbio)
Shape:	irregular round
Average Diameter:	1.333 cm0.524803 in
Average Thickness:
Average Weight:	2.25 g0.00225 kg 0.0049604 lb
Workmanship:	struck
Archaeological Culture:	unknown
Date:	last decades of 2nd - first quarter of 1st century BC
Date derived from:	typology
Number of Known Pieces:	1346
Area of Circulation:	Lombardian region: Borgovercelli (Vercelli), Verdello (Bergamo), Brentonico (Trento), Burwein (Graubünden), Manerbio (Brescia), Este (Padova), Breonio (Verona)
Mint / Main Site:	unknown
Coordinates (approx.):	none
Coin Legend
Idealised Transliteration:	toutiopouos
Idealised Original Script:
Variant Reading:	toutiopo / uos (two lines)
Position:	back
Orientation:	0°
Direction of Writing:	sinistroverse
Script:	North Italic Script
Letter Height:	0
Number of Letters:	11
Number of Words:	1
Number of Lines:	1
Inscription Type:	unknown
Language:	unknown
Syntactic Analysis:	NP
Meaning:	name?
Alternative Sigla:	Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 36 B
Sources:	Pautasso 1966: 14-15 & 38-42 & 48 & 93-94 & 105 Lejeune 1971: 128 Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 199

Images

Silver drachma with toutiopou(os) legend from the hoard of Burwein (Graubünden)

Silver drachma with (t)out(iopouos) legend from the hoard of Burwein (Graubünden)

Drachma with toutiopo / uos legend from the hoard of Verdello (Bergamo)

Drachma with toutiopouos legend from the hoard of Manerbio

Drachma with toutiopouos legend from the hoard of Manerbio

Map

Commentary

• Morandi 1982: 230 (nr. 131), pl. LIII, fig. 2
• Erroneous readings (after Tibiletti Bruno 1981: 199): rutirio, trutirios, toutiorio, toutioioros (cf. Tibiletti Bruno 1978: 161)
• Violante 1993: 123 (picture)

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