RPC I, 1958

 

Image of specimen #11

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 1958
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 SPES AVGVSTA S C
Edition Spes Augusta s(enatus) c(onsulto)
Translation Augustan Hope, by decree of the senate
Reverse design Spes advancing left, extending right hand and holding dress with left hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Average weight 26.34 g
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference Amandry, BSNAF 2012 (2018), pp. 89–92
Specimens 14 (0 in the core collections)
Note These sestertii are not the product of the mint of Rome as they have a central cavity on obv. and rev. Most of these coins 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 but Bithynia seems more likely because the coinage of Nicaea and Nicomedia, e.g., is struck on flans with central cavities.
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