RPC I, 1440

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 1440
Province Achaea
Region Thessaly
City Koinon of Thessaly
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Magistrate Aristion (strategos)
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΩΝ
Edition Νέρων Θεσσαλῶν
Translation for Nero, of the Thessalians
Obverse design radiate head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription ΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΥ ΑΡΙΣΤΙΩΝΟΣ
Edition στρατηγοῦ Ἀριστίωνος
Translation under the strategos Aristion
Reverse design Taurokathapsia scene: Hero Thessalos jumping from his horse, in background galloping right, onto a bull running right, the head of which he restrains with a band held in both his hands
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 6.70 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference Rogers 81, Burrer Em 1, p. 150–1, 30–37 (series 2)
Specimens 7 (3 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: I-B
2 2     B: Löbb.
3 3     C McClean 4996 = pl. 181.8
4 4     Kölner Münzkabinett 112, 19 Oct. 2019, lot 129
5 5     ✸ BCD = Triton XV, 3 Jan. 2012, lot 931(part of)
6 6     CGT coll. = CNG 372, 6 April 2016, lot 273 ex BCD
7 7     C. Jackson-Jacobs coll. (ex CNG EA 325, 23 April 2014, lot 45, ex BCD coll.)