RPC I, 1739


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	1739
Province	Thrace
Region	Thrace
City	Sestus
Reign	Augustus
Issue	Augustus (?)
Obverse inscription
Obverse design	laureate head, right
Reverse inscription	ΣΗΣ[
Reverse design	lyre
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	15 mm
Axis	6
Reference	BMC 16 ('Domitian')
Specimens	2 (1 in the core collections)
Note	This type was given to Augustus (?) though the BMC attributed the L coin to Domitian. This attribution seems now the most likely: see M. Fox, Two numismatic puzzles from 1st century Sestus in B. Ciupercă (ed.), Archaeology of the first millennium A.D. IV. Nomads and the autochtonous in the first millennium A.D. (Istros, 2015), pp. 33-47 (and RPC II, 358A).
Correction	Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			L	BMC 16	15	4.56	6		Show
2	2				Lischine 1197	15		6		Show