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 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 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