RPC I, 1418

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 1418
Province Achaea
Region Epirus
City Phoenice
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΛ ΚΑΙ ϹΕ(ΒΑ) ΓΕΡΜΑ
Edition Νέρων Κλ(αύδιος) Καῖ(σαρ) Σεβα(στὸς) Γερμα(νικός)
Translation Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design radiate head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription ΦΟΙΝΕΙΚΑ ΑΠΟ ΗΠ
Edition Φοινείκα ἀπὸ Ἤπ(ειροῦ)
Translation Phoenice from Epirus
Reverse design naked figure, standing facing, holding fulmen (?) and sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 9.69 g
Reference BMC 5
Specimens 7 (4 in the core collections)
Note 6-7. The obverses of these two specimens are erased and it is therefore quite difficult to read the obv. legend as ΝΕRΩN KAI ΣEBA ΓEΡMA (commentary p. 163), whereas the legend indicated in the catalogue (p. 177) follows RPC 1418. The reverse legend is read as ΦΟΙΝΕΙΚΑIΩN ΑΠΟΗΠ(ΕΙΡOΥ) (p. 163 and p. 177), but the photos clearly show that the legend is ΦΟΙΝΕΙΚΑ ΑΠΟΗΠ(ΕΙROU). The reverse type is interpreted as Zeus standing facing, naked, holding thunderbolt and resting on sceptre.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L BMC 5
2 2     B: Rauch, Olympia find
3 3     B: Rauch, Olympia find
4 4     V: GR 12006
5 5     Rome from the 1926–7 Italian excavations at Finik = S. L. Cesano, 'Monetazione e circolazione sul suolo del antica Albania, AHN 7, 1932, 62, no. 78, with tav. 5.5 = L. M. Ugolini, L'Acropoli di Fenice [1932]. 159, no. 95
6 6     Phoenice: 8729 S. de Maria and S. Gjongecaj ed, Phoinike III. Rapporto preliminare sulle campagne di scavi e ricerche 2002–2003, p. 177, no. 336 and fig. 10.3, 336–7, p. 176
7 7     Phoenice: 8730 S. de Maria and S. Gjongecaj ed, Phoinike III. Rapporto preliminare sulle campagne di scavi e ricerche 2002–2003, p. 177, no. 337 and fig. 10.3, 337, p. 176