RPC I, 1396

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 1396
Province Achaea
Region Epirus
City Buthrotum
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Claudius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG GER
Edition Ti(berius) Claud(ius) Caesar Aug(ustus) Ger(manicus)
Translation Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design laureate head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription C C I B PVB, D D
Edition c(olonia) C(ampestris) I(ulia) B(uthrotum) pub(lice) d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)
Translation the Julian colony of Campestris Buthrotum, at public expense, by decree of the decurions
Reverse design male figure seated on rock, left, holding rudder and anchor (?); on right, cippus (?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 9.50 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference Maz III corr.
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: 18274701, 1863/28636-3
2 2     Rome: 107838 Bollettino di Numismatica, Monografia 6.1, 1989, p. 52 no. 83, under Babba
3 3     Verona: 70675 D. Calomino, ‘Monete dell’Epiro e dell’isola di Corcira conservate nella collezione numismatica del Museo Civico di Verona’, Verona Illustrata 18 (2005), p. 15 and Tav. [1], 5