RPC I, 1377A

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 1377A
Province Achaea
Region Epirus
City Nicopolis
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Issue Reign of Nero, probable attribution to Nicopolis (see introduction)
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝΙ ΠΑΤΡΩ
Edition Νέρωνι πάτρω(νι)
Translation to Nero protector
Obverse design Nero inaedicula
Reverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝΙ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΩ ΠΑΤΡ
Edition Νέρωνι Ἐλευθερίῳ πάτρ(ωνι)
Translation to Nero, the Liberator and Protecteur
Reverse design Eleutheria standing facing, head right, holding pileus and patera (?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Average weight 9.64 g
Reference Levy NC 1989 —, Calomino 16
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note The new legend presents Nero as Nero Liberator (in a form more akin to the IVPPITER LIBERATOR of Patras (RPC I, 1279-80) or ΝΕΚΑI ΖΕΥΣΕΛΕΥΘΕΡIΟΣ of Sicyon (RPC I, 1238-44) although Zeus is not present.
Addition Additional coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Vecchi 7, 1997, lot 1207 = Peus 409, 25 Apr. 2013, lot 570