RPC I, 151

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 151
Province Tarraconensis
Region Hispania
City Carthago Nova
Reign Roman Republic
Dating about the middle and second half of the first century BC
Obverse inscription
Obverse design head of Athena, right
Reverse inscription C V I N
Edition c(olonia) u(rbs) I(ulia) N(ova)
Translation The new Julian colonial city
Reverse design statue left, upon pedestal
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 21 mm
Average weight 6.48 g
Reference Vives 130–1, FITA VII–26, Beltrán 6, GMI 162, NAH 913
Specimens 65 (30 in the core collections)
Note See now M. del Mar Llorens Forcada, La Ciudad de Carthago Nova: las emisiones romanas (Murcia, 1994); J. M. Abascal, Mastia 1, 2002, pp. 21-44, who proposes to move RPC 151 just before 174, in the reign of Tiberius, and who argues that the city was promoted to the rank of colony by Pompey in ca. 54 BC.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B
2 2     B: Fox
3 3     B: 17114
4 4     B: Bohl
5 5     B: Löbb.
6 6     Bologna: 214
7 7     Calicó 6/1979, 322
8 8     Calicó 6/1979, 323
9 9     Cop SNG 485
10 10     Mu: 62
11 11     Mu: 63
12 12     O
13 13     O
14 14     ✸ P: 1558
15 15     P: 1559
16 16     P: Delepierre
17 17     Vat: 315
18 18     Vat: 316
19 19     C
20 20     C
21 21     Calicó 11/1978, 226
22 22     Calicó 11/1978, 227
23 23     Calicó 11/1978, 228
24 24     Calicó 11/1978, 229
25 25     L: 1168
26 26     L: 1169
27 27     L: 1170
28 28     L: 1171 FITA, p. VII–26
29 29     Elx
30 30     Madrid: 8739
31 31     Madrid: 8740
32 32     Madrid: 8741
33 33     Madrid: 8742
34 34     Madrid: 8743
35 35     Madrid: 8744
36 36     Madrid: 8745
37 37     Madrid: 8746
38 38     Madrid: 8748
39 39     Madrid: 8749
40 40     Madrid: 8750
41 41     Madrid: 8751
42 42     Madrid: 8752
43 43     Madrid: 8753
44 44     Madrid: 8755
45 45     Madrid: 8756
46 46     Madrid: 8757
47 47     Madrid: 8770
48 48     Madrid: 8776
49 49     Madrid: 8777
50 50     Madrid: 8783
51 51     Madrid: 8786
52 52     Ba: 4700
53 53     Ba: 33974
54 54     G: Uncertain of Spain 4
55 55     NY: 69222 (Anderson)
56 56     NY: HSA 7799
57 57     NY: HSA 7800
58 58     NY: 23693
59 59     NY: 23694
60 60     NY: without number
61 61     NY: without number
62 62     NY: without number
63 63     NY: Newell
64 64     NY: Newell
65 65     IVDJ Vives 130–1