Type of Reverse No. 3 - Festival of Isis Mintage

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Isis Festivals:
Type of Reverse No. 3a

Serapis standing front, looking right or left,
raising right hand and holding globe in left hand.

Isis Festivals:
Type of Reverse No. 3b

Isis standing front, looking left,
raising right hand and
sometimes holding globe in left.

Isis Festivals:
Type of Reverse No. 3c

Sol-Serapis standing front,
looking right, raising right hand
and holding globe in left.

Clicking busts leads to the description of the obverses, as well as variants of such busts.

Number

Type of
obverse

Size and legends

Catalogs

Ruler,
mint and period

Images

AE 3 (Serapis)
3a/1	AE3 Obv. DEO SARAPIDI Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 244 Vagi 3377 Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 587
3a/2	AE3 Obv. DEO SERAPIDI Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 157 Vagi -- Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 281 No. 371 No. 388
3a/3	AE3 Obv. ISIS FARIA Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi: 308 Vagi 3389 ^[1] Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century
3a/4	AE3 Obv. ISIS FARIA Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 359 Vagi 3399 ^[2] Cohen VIII 71: 27, 28 & 29 RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 41 No. 427
3a/5	AE3 Obv. ISIS FARIA Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 345 Vagi -- Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 123 No. 476
3a/6 ^[3]	AE3 Obv. DEO SARAPIDI Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi -- Vagi 3415 Cohen VIII 66: 9 ^[4] RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-fourth century	No. 368
AE 4 (Serapis)
3a/7	AE4 Obv. VOTA PVBLICA Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 137 Vagi -- Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 144 No. 197
3a/8	AE4 Obv. DEO SARAPIDI Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 146 Vagi 3384 ^[1] Cohen VIII 56: 97 RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 474

Number

Type of
obverse

Size and legends

Catalogs

Ruler,
mint and period

Images

AE 3 (Isis)
3b/1	AE3 Obv. DEO SERAPIDI Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 227 ^[5] Vagi 3371 Cohen VIII 56: 96 RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 246
3b/2	AE3 Obv. ISIS FARIA Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi: 320 ^[6] Vagi -- Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 475
3b/3	AE3 Obv. ISIS FARIA Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 355 Vagi -- Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century
AE 4 (Isis)
3b/4 ^[7]	AE4 Obv. DEO SERAPIDI Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi -- Vagi -- Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 346
3b/5	AE4 Obv. ISIS FARIA Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 261 ^[8] Vagi 3394 Cohen VIII 69: 12 RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-Fourth Century	No. 27

Number

Type of
obverse

Size and legends

Catalogs

Ruler,
mint and period

Images

AE 3 (Sol-Serapis)
3c/1	AE3 Obv. DEO SERAPIDI Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 164 Vagi 3381 Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-fourth century	No. 204
AE 4 (Sol-Serapis)
3c/2	AE4 Obv. DEO SARAPIDI Rev: VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi -- Vagi 3384 ^[9] Cohen -- RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-fourth century
3c/3	AE4 Obv. VOTA PVBLICA Rev. VOTA PVBLICA	Alföldi 288 Vagi 3398 Cohen VIII 71: 30 ^[10] RIC --	Anonymous Rome Mid-fourth century	No. 58 No. 585

NOTES

[1] Vagi 571: 3384 & 3389 indicates that there are tokens with Serapis and also with Sol-Serapis on the reverse.

[2] Vagi 5712: 3399 indicates that there are tokens with Serapis and also with Isis on the reverse.

[3] See token N. 368 shown below. Alföldi does not describe this token, which Cohen VIII p. 66 had already cataloged with No. 9 Vagi 572: 3415 indicates that there is Sol-Serapis reverse.

[4] Cohen VIII 66: 9 describes this reverse as "femme" and Cayón IV p. 2653: 3 says "África".

[5] Alföldi 88: 227 says it's Isis but puts a question mark.

[6] Alföldi 88: 320 says it´s Serapis but puts a question mark.

[7] See token N. 346 shown below. "Tesorillo 3b/4".

[8] Alföldi 83: 261 says "Isis or Serapis".

[9] Doubtful token. Vagi 571: 3384 indicates that there are AE4 with obverse of Serapis and reverse of Sol-Serapis, but no other author mentions it and we have not found it.

[10] Cohen VIII 71: 30 describes this reverse as "Sérapis".

Author note

As seen in the previous notes, sometimes it is difficult to find out if the figure on the reverse is Sol-Serapis, Serapis or Isis, the different authors do not agree. In any case, to facilitate cataloging, we have divided this type into three: 3a (Serapis), 3b (Isis) and 3c (Sol-Serapis).

Anonymous obverses

Types of reverses

Imperial obverses