RPC I, 1255

 

Image of specimen #9

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 1255
Province Achaea
Region Peloponnesus
City Patras
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Claudius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM(ANICV)
Edition Ti(berius) Claudius Caesar Aug(ustus) Germanicu(s)
Translation Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design head of Claudius, left
Reverse inscription LIBERIS AVG COL A A P
Edition Liberis Aug(usti) col(onia) A(ugusta) A(chaica) P(Patrensis)
Translation to the children of Augustus, Colony of Augustan Achaia of Patras
Reverse design crossed cornucopias with small bust of the three children of Claudius
Metal copper
Average diameter 25 mm
Average weight 12.35 g
Axis 4
Specimens 11 (4 in the core collections)
Die-links 8–11: same pair of dies. 1–7: same obv. die. 1, 8–11: same rev. die.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.39451
2 2     N: 7489
3 3     N: S 11108
4 4     Vat
5 5     Mazzini tav. XLI = Finarte asta 995 [Fontana] (27.11.1996), lot 784
6 6     Santamaria, Sept. 1967, lot 704
7 7     RIN 1958, tav. III, 5
8 8     L: 1893,0604.31
9 9     ✸ P: 1237
10 10     B: Fox
11 11     Kastner 8 (1975), 154