RPC I, 1762A


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Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	1762A
Province	Thrace
Region	Thrace
City	Perinthus
Reign	Nero
Person (obv.)	Nero (Augustus)
Issue	Group with Latin legends and Roman types
Obverse inscription	[NERO CLAVDI]VS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR[ ]
Edition	[Nero] [Claudi]us Caesar Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) p(ontifex) m(aximus) tr[---]
Translation	Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, with tribunician power
Obverse design	laureate head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription	GENIVS AVGVSTI
Edition	Genius Augusti
Translation	the genius of Augustus
Reverse design	Genius standing left, holding patera over altar and cornucopia
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	26 mm
Average weight	8.95 g
Specimens	1 (0 in the core collections)
Note	The rough fabric and unusual obverse legend show that this is not a coin of Rome or Lyon, and that it belongs with the group of similar style given to Perinthus in RPC I. (It may well originally have had SC in the exergue.)
Addition	Additional coin-type (post publication)

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸				CNG 49, 17 Mar. 1999, lot 1486	26.1	8.95		Obv.: GIC — (Capricorn, r. (6 mm square)) ; the capricorn in this large square(ish) punch does not seem the same as any in GIC 297-311.	Show