RPC I, 2100

 

Image of specimen #7

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 2100
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Uncertain mint of Bithynia
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Claudius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ ΓΕΡΜΑ(ΝΙ)
Obverse design bare head of Claudius, left
Reverse inscription ΑΓΡΙΠΠΙΝΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ
Reverse design draped bust of Agrippina II, right; below, monogram
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference Rec Nicomedia 22 corr.
Specimens 10 (2 in the core collections)
Note A further specimen has been published by T. Gökyildirim (Annotazioni Numismatiche 11, 1993, pp. 223-6) from excavations at Maltepe near Istanbul. He interprets the coin as a piece of Perinthus (reading the monogram as a monogram of Perinthus) and interprets the reverse as Agrippina I (presumably wrongly as she was never augusta). The attribution to Perinthus is possible, as Perinthian coins are very similar to those from Bithynia, but by no means certain: the absence of an ethnic and the use of a monogram are more characteristic of Bithynia.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     V: GR 15185 (under Cotys)
2 2     B: Fox (under Nicaea)
3 3     Turin see Rec
4 4     Private coll., USA, now Donowan coll.
5 5     Gotha cast in Winterthur, incerta
6 6     excavations at Maltepe near Istanbul = T. Gökyildirim (Annotazioni Numismatiche 11, 1993, pp. 223–6
7 7     ✸ CNG EA 388, 14 Dec. 2016, lot 237
8 8     Gorny & Mosch 122, 10 Mar. 2003, lot 1773
9 9     Leu WA 15, 27 Feb. 2021, lot 1117
10 10     CGT coll.