RPC I, 1957


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Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	1957
Province	Uncertain
Region	Uncertain
City	Latin coinage of Thrace and Bithynia
Reign	Claudius
Person (obv.)	Claudius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription	TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P
Edition	Ti(berius) Claudius Caesar Aug(ustus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) Imp(erator) P(ater) P(atriae)
Translation	Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, chief priest, with tribunician power, emperor, father of the fatherland
Obverse design	laureate head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription	EX S C P P OB CIVES SERVATOS
Edition	ex s(enatus) c(onsulto) p(ater) p(atriae) ob cives servatos
Translation	by decree of the senate, father of the fatherland, for saving citizens
Reverse design	in four lines in oak wreath
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	34 mm
Average weight	25.73 g
Axis	1, 6, 12
Reference	Amandry, BSNAF 2012 (2018), pp. 89–92
Specimens	23 (1 in the core collections)
Note	A group of sestertii and asses for Claudius (1957-9) and sestertii for Nero (1960-1) with latin legends is not the product of the mint of Rome as these coins have a central cavity on obv. and rev. Most of them appeared on the market after 1990 and the dismantlement of USSR into 15 socialist Republic. They might have been struck in Thrace, but not in Perinthus, or in Bithynia. Thrace was privileged by Amandry, BSNAF 2012 (2018), pp. 89-92 but Bithynia seems more likely because the coinage of Nicaea and Nicomedia, e.g., is struck on flans with central cavities.
Addition	Additional coin-type (post publication)

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Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	P: 2009.277		33			Obv.: GIC — (capricorn, r., over rudder on globe) ; Cu: 67.7; Zn: 29.0; Sn: 0.0023; Pb: 3;3; for the cmk, see Martini, Collezione Pangerl n° 94	Show
2	2		Bruun Rasmussen 774, 13 June 2007, lot 5754	33.5	23.55			Show
3	3		CNG 43, 24 Sept. 1997, lot 1815	33.2	26.43			Show
4	4		CNG 43, 24 Sept. 1997, lot 1816	33	29.25			Show
5	5		CNG 49, 17 Mar. 1999, lot 1467	33.5	25.59			Show
6	6		CNG EA 109, 2 Mar. 2005, lot 202	37.1	24.89			Show
7	7		CNG EA 163, 25 Apr. 2007, lot 290	35.1	22.66			Show
8	8		CNG EA 244, 10 Nov. 2010, lot 406	33	21.45	6		Show
9	9		Gemini XI, 12 Jan. 2014, lot 395	33.1	27.66	12		Show
10	10		Gorny & Mosch 108, 3 Apr. 2001, lot 1706	33.3	24.46			Show
11	11		Gorny & Mosch 138, 7 Mar. 2005, lot 1939	32.9	26.13			Show
12	12		Hirsch 319, 2 May 2016, lot 399	33				Show
13	13		Lanz 128, 22 May 2006, lot 254	36	26.02			Show
14	14		Lanz 162, 6 June 2016, lot 223	33.2	25.55			Show
15	15 ✸		NAC 54, 24 Mar. 2010, lot 1040 (ex Lanz 128, 22 May 2006, lot 255)	33.3	28.54			Show
16	16		Naville Numismatics 41, 24 June 2018, lot 518	36.1	27.06			Show
17	17		Rauch 75, 6 May 2005, lot 323	32.9	29.99			Show
18	18		Rauch 76, 17 Oct. 2005, lot 480	33.3	26.11			Show
19	19		Roma Numismatics 4, 30 Sept. 2012, lot 2724 (ex Lanz 121, 22 Nov. 2004, lot 328; Art Coins Roma 4, 5 Dec. 2011, lot 41)	34.2	20.90	6	Obv.: GIC 13 (laureate head of Heracles, bearded, r.) ; The cmk, not checked and not illustrated in GIC, is indeed a bearded head of Heracles, r.: see Martini, Pangerl n° 99	Show
20	20		Spink 17006, 25 Sept. 2017, lot 80	33.2				Show
21	21		Trade Paris 2004	35				Show
22	22		Varesi 66, 29 Apr. 2015, lot 172	33	24.55			Show
23	23		CNG EA 534, 15 Mar. 2023, lot 298	36.5	28.00	1		Show