RPC I, 1419

 

Image of specimen #7

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 1419
Province Achaea
Region Epirus
City Phoenice
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΛ ΚΑΙ ϹΕ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ
Edition Νέρων Κλ(αύδιος) Καῖ(σαρ) Σε(βαστὸς) Γερμανι(κός)
Translation Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design radiate head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription ΦΟΙΝΕΙΚΑ ΑΠΟ ΗΠΕΙ
Edition Φοινείκα ἀπὸ Ἤπ(ειροῦ)
Translation Phoenice from Epirus
Reverse design female (?) head, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 5.96 g
Axis 6, 12
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     V: GR 12005
2 2     V: GR 12004
3 3     L. M. Ugolini, Albania Antica II. L’Acropoli di Fenice (Milan-Rome, 1932), pp. 159–60 and fig. 95
4 4     Phoenice S. Gjongecaj, ‘Quelques réflexions sur la politique monétaire de la ville antique de Phoinikè’, in P. Cabanes and J.-L. Lamboley ed, L’Illyrie méridionale et l’Épire dans l’Antiquité – IV (Paris, 2004), p. 172 and p. 174, fig. 13
5 5     Phoenice: 8736/1 S. de Maria and S. Gjongecaj ed, op. cit., p. 177, no. 334 and fig. 10.3, 334, p. 176
6 6     Phoenice: 8736 S. de Maria and S. Gjongecaj ed, op. cit., p. 177, no. 335
7 7     ✸ T. Cederlind BBS 171, 7 Oct. 2013, lot 176 = T. Cederlind BBS 161, 25 Oct. 2011, lot 106 = CNG EA 375, 1 June 2016, lot 509