RPC I, 1344

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 1344
Province Achaea
Region Euboea
City Chalcis
Reign Augustus
Person (rev.) Laevinus (proconsul)
Magistrate Laevinus (proconsul)
Obverse inscription ΧΑΛΚΙϹ
Obverse design head of Hera wearing polos, right
Reverse inscription ΛΑΙΟΥ(Ι)ΝΟϹ ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΟϹ
Reverse design bare head of Laevinus, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Axis 2, 3, 7, 12
Reference Picard 91, FITA 385
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)
Note Lucius Livius Rufinus was supposedly proconsul of Achaea, but he was only known from the previous reading of these coins. But this reading did not make sense: there is no ΡΟΥΦΙΝΟϹ nor ΛΙΟΥΠΟϹ. The correct reading seems to be ΛΑΙΟΥ(Ι)ΝΟⳞ ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΟⳞ: Laevinus proconsul (by iotacism, ae can be transliterated αι). For the name, see PIR L 71. New reading of this proconsul by J. Mairat.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 106a Picard 91/1c
2 2     ✸ B: 18238498, 1900 Imhoof-Blumer MG 222, 56 = Picard 91/1c
3 3     Hirsch XXI, lot 1611 (Consul Weber) = Picard 91/1a
4 4     BCD = Picard 91/1a = Lanz 111, 25 Nov. 2002, lot 274
5 5     Milan Picard 9/1b
6 6     Lanz 111, 25 Nov. 2002, lot 275 (BCD coll.) = CNG MBS 78, P. Villemur coll., 14 May 2008, lot 1223
7 7     CGT coll. = Saint Paul Antiques 15, 27 Jan. 2018, lot 242