RPC I, 2099

Province Bithynia-Pontus
City Uncertain mint of Bithynia 
Region Bithynia
Reign Claudius
Obverse inscription ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Obverse design bare head of Claudius, left
Reverse inscription (Λ) ΔΟΥΝΙΟΥ ϹΕΟΥΗΡΟΥ ΑΝΘΥΠΑΟΥ
Reverse design Zeus standing, right, with sceptre and fulmen (?); in exergue, monogram (ΑΡΚ?)

Coin no. 7 of RPC I, 2099

 

Museum Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara (Turkey)
Inventory no. 1499-218
Reference M. Arslan, ‘Bithynia Bölgesi Sehir Sikkeleri’, Anadolu Medeniyestleri Müzesi 1996 (Ankara, 1997), p. 133 no. 71 with pl. VI.71
Diameter 27.5
Weight 10.48
Axis
Note The coin has two countermarks (no other specimen is countermarked); once with eagle facing, wings open, head r. (GIC -) and once with another countermark, probably the same eagle one. The countermark is similar to GIC 343, though that is found from the eastern limes (cf. C.J. Howgego, ‘The XII Fulminata: countermarks, emblems and movements under Trajan or Hadrian’, in (ed) S. Mitchell, Armies and frontiers in Roman and Byzantine Anatolia (BAR 156, Oxford, 1983, pp. 41-6).
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