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Image of specimen #1 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2136 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | I |
Number | 2136 |
Province | Bithynia-Pontus |
Region | Paphlagonia |
City | Sinope |
Reign | Nero |
Person (obv.) | Augustus (Divus) |
Person (rev.) | Nero (Augustus) |
Issue | Year 103 |
Dating | 57/8 |
Obverse inscription | DIVO AVG C I F ANN CIII |
Edition | divo Aug(usto) c(olonia) I(ulia) F(elix) ann(o) CIII |
Translation | to the divine Augustus, the Julian colony of Felix (Sinope), year 103 |
Obverse design | radiate head (of Augustus?), right |
Reverse inscription | NERO CLAVD CAES AVG GERMANI C I F |
Edition | Nero Claud(ius) Caes(ar) Aug(ustus) Germani(cus) c(olonia) I(ulia) F(elix) |
Translation | Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the Julian colony of Felix (Sinope) |
Reverse design | Nero in consular processus, right |
Metal | leaded bronze |
Average diameter | 35 mm |
Average weight | 19.99 g |
Axis | 6 |
Reference | Rec 95a |
Specimens | 2 (1 in the core collections) |
Die-links | 1–2: same obv. die. |
Note | The obv. presumably represents Divus Augustus, since Divus Claudius was never shown radiate. If the rev. is correctly interpreted as the processus consularis, then the consulship in question must be that of 57. |