RPC I, 2137

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 2137
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Paphlagonia
City Sinope
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Claudia Octavia
Issue Year 103
Dating 57/8
Obverse inscription NERO CLAVD CAES AVG AN(NI) CIII
Edition Nero Claud(ius) Caes(ar) Aug(ustus) anni CIII
Translation Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus, of year 103
Obverse design laureate head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription OCTAVIAE AVG C I F
Edition Octaviae Aug(usti) c(olonia) I(ulia) F(elix)
Translation to Octavia, of Augustus, the Julian colony of Felix (Sinope)
Reverse design bust of Claudia Octavia, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 21 mm
Average weight 6.11 g
Axis 3, 6, 7, 12
Reference Rec 96 = 96a = ?97a
Specimens 8 (3 in the core collections)
Note Rec 97a (pl. XXVII.9) seems to be from the same obv. die as G 16, in which case it is of year 103, not 104.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     G SNG 1145
2 2     NY: 1944.100.41874
3 3     B: 100/1909
4 4     vA 235
5 5     Wendt XXI (1975) lot 443b
6 6     ✸ Bern: N/82.610 SNG Righetti 610 (ex Sternberg XI (1981) lot 244)
7 7     D. Kimel coll. (ex Numismatics Salon Mateusz Wójcicki Auction 8, 19 Sept. 2021, lot 3051)
8 8     CNG EA 560, 17 Apr. 2024, lot 394