RPC I, 1744A

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 1744A
Province Thrace
Region Thrace
City Sestus
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Nero (Caesar)
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Obverse design bare-headed draped bust of Nero, left
Reverse inscription ϹΗϹΤΙΩΝ
Reverse design lyre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Axis 6, 12
Specimens 13 (7 in the core collections)
Note M.Fox, loc. cit, p. 39 (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), rightly states that the coins of Nero published under 1744 should be divided into 2 groups, one with bare-headed bust, the other with laureate bust:e.g. Hence 1744A and B.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     C McClean 4179 = pl. 151.8
2 2     L BMC 15
3 3     V: GR 34401
4 4     P: 1915
5 5     ✸ B: 18237184, 356/1879 Kat 38
6 6     B: 18237186, 382/1873 Kat 39
7 7     B: 18237255, I-B
8 8     Naumann 65, 6 May 2018, lot 304
9 9     Solidus Numismatik 95, 3 Mar. 2022, lot 257 (ex Solidus Numismatik EA 27, 17 Mar. 2018, lot 347)
10 10     Savoca Coins Blue 152nd Blue, 7 - 8 Jan. 2023, lot 1076
11 11     CGT coll. = Savoca 11th Blue, 28 Oct. 2018, lot 1139
12 12     CGT coll. = Savoca 150th Blue, 11 Dec. 2022, lot 702
13 13     Savoca Coins Blue 158th Blue, 11 - 12 Mar. 2023, lot 674