RPC I, 1470

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 1470
Province Achaea
Region Uncertain
City Uncertain mint of Achaea
Reign Roman Republic
Person (obv.) Mark Antony (imperator) ; Octavia
Magistrate Marcus Oppius Capito
Issue Mark Antony's 'fleet coinage', light series
Obverse inscription M ANT IMP TERT COS DESIG ITER ET TER IIIVIR R P C
Edition M(arcus) Ant(onius) imp(erator) tert(ium) Co(n)s(ul) desig(natus) iter(um) et ter(tium) IIIvir r(ei) p(ublicae) c(onstituendae)
Translation Mark Antony, commander-in-chief for the third time, consul designate for the second and third times, triumvir for the restoration of the republic
Obverse design jugate heads of Antony and Octavia, right
Reverse inscription M OPPIVS CAPITO PRO PR PRAEF CLASS F C, Α (below)
Edition M(arcus) Oppius Capito pro pr(aetore) praef(ectus) class(is) f(aciundum) c(uravit) αʹ
Translation Marcus Oppius Capito, propraetor, prefect of the fleet, had (this) made, 1
Reverse design one ship under sail to right, head of Medusa (?)
Metal bronze
Average diameter 16 mm
Average weight 3.84 g
Axis 5, 9, 10
Reference RSN 1987, 108–11, C
Specimens 123 (0 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Karlsruhe
2 2 –110     see RSN 1987, C 1–70, 72–110
111 111     Venice-MAN: 3857
112 112     Venice-MAN: 3858
113 113     Bologna
114 114     Bologna
115 115     RW
116 116     Franke coll.
117 117     Athens excavations: To Mouseio kai è anaskaphè. Eurèmata apo ton chôro anegersès tou neou mouseiou tès Akropolès (Athens, 2006), p. 45, no. 90
118 118     OGN Numismatique - Pierre Crinon Oct. 2016, 19 Oct. 2016, lot 212
119 119     ✸ CNG Triton V, 15 Jan. 2002, lot 1707
120 120     Bucephalus Numismatic 15, 10 - 11 Feb. 2023, lot 985
121 121     Noble Numismatics 104, 26 Nov. 2013, lot 4780 ex Barry Allen Jones coll. with ticket from M.R. Roberts, ex Colin E. Pitchfork coll. ex Noble Numismatics 62 (lot 2524), ex Roy Sansom coll. , .1973 and B.R. Noble coll. from Glendining's London, 11 Dec. 1975 (lot 142 part)
122 122     M. Janssen coll.
123 123     M. Janssen coll.