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Image of specimen #5 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2070 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | I |
Number | 2070 |
Province | Bithynia-Pontus |
Region | Bithynia |
City | Nicomedia |
Reign | Claudius |
Person (obv.) | Claudius (Augustus) |
Magistrate | Lucius Mindius Pollio (proconsul) |
Dating | c. 42 |
Obverse inscription | ΤΙ ΚΛ(Α)ΥΔΙΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒ ΑΡΧ ΜΕΓ Δ Ε Α[ΥΤ] Π Π |
Edition | Τι(βέριος) Κλαύδιος Καῖσαρ Σεβ(αστὸς) ἀρχ(ιερεὺς) μέγ(ιστος) δ(ημαρχικῆς) ἐ(ξουσίας) α[ὐτ](οκράτωρ) π(ατὴρ) π(ατρίδος) |
Translation | Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus, chief priest, with tribunician power, Emperor, father of the fatherland |
Obverse design | bare head of Claudius, left |
Reverse inscription | ΕΠΙ Λ ΜΙΝΔΙΟΥ ΠΩΛΛΙΩΝΟΣ ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΩ |
Edition | ἐπὶ Λ(ουκίου) Μινδίου Πωλλίωνος ἀνθυπάτου πάτρω(νος) |
Translation | under Lucius Mindius Pollio, proconsul, protector |
Reverse design | head of Tyche, right |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 25 mm |
Average weight | 8.37 g |
Axis | 12 |
Specimens | 7 (0 in the core collections) |
Note | VA identified the head on the rev. as Bithynia, presumably because he followed the attribution of the coins to the Commune Bithyniae. |