RPC I, 1380

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 1380
Province Achaea
Region Epirus
City Buthrotum
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Magistrate Aulus Hirtuleius Niger (duovir) ; Quintus Naevius Sura (duovir)
Obverse inscription C A BVT EX D D
Edition colonia Augusta Buthrotum ex decreto decurionum c(olonia) A(ugusta) But(hrotum) ex d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)
Translation the Augustan colony of Buthrotum, by decree of the decurions
Obverse design bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription Q NAEVI SVRA A HIRTVL NIGER, IIVIR B (in field)
Edition Quintus Naevius Sura Aulus Hirtuleius Niger IIviri Buthrotum Q(uintus) Naevi(us) Sura A(ulus) Hirtul(eius) Niger IIvir(i) B(uthrotum)
Translation Quintus Naevius Sura (and) Aulus Hirtuleius Niger, duovirs, Buthrotum
Reverse design genius of the colony (?), right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 5.11 g
Reference MG 138, no. 27
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Note For the updated nomen gentilicium (Hirtuleius), cf. limestone column, also from Buthrotum, inscribed "A. Hirtuleius Asiaticus": AE 1949, 264; Ehmig-Haensch, die Lateinischen Inschriften aus Albanien (LIA), Bonn 2012.124 (at https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/lia/LIA_243.pdf).
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P
2 2     A
3 3     Turin Lavy 4745
4 4     Rodotopi (Epirus) = D. E. Evaggelidou, 'E anaskaphè esi Rodotopi', Praktika 1952, p. 324, no. 33