RPC I, 2025

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 2025
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Cius
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Claudius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΣ
Edition Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικός
Translation Tiberius Claudius Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design bare head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription ΗΡΑΚΛΗΕΟΥΣ ΚΤΙΣΤΟΥ ΚΙΑΝΩΝ
Edition Ἡρακλέους κτίστου Κιανῶν
Translation of Heracles, founder of the Cians
Reverse design club
Metal brass
Average diameter 21 mm
Average weight 4.55 g
Axis 12
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
Note Reverse legend reads ΗΡΑΚΛΗΕΟΥΣ ΚΤΙΣΤΟΥ, not ΗΡΑΚΛΗΣ ΚΤΙΣΤΗ.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1975,0411.63
2 2     Mu: 9b (20776)
3 3     KM 502, I: not in B
4 4     ✸ T. Mullally coll.