RPC I, 2140


Image of specimen #2

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/2140 json ttl rdf xml
Volume	I
Number	2140
Province	Bithynia-Pontus
Region	Paphlagonia
City	Sinope
Reign	Nero
Person (obv.)	Nero (Augustus)
Issue	Undated
Dating	57/60?
Obverse inscription	N C C AVG
Obverse design	laureate head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription	C I F (retrograde)
Reverse design	two colonists ploughing, left
Metal	copper
Average diameter	17 mm
Axis	12
Reference	Rec 98
Specimens	3 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links	1–3: same pair of dies.
Note	The portrait is not of the later steps type, so the issue probably belongs to the period of most of the Neronian issues.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	L: 1840,1226.338		17	3.65	12	qualitative metal analysis on coin	Show
2	2 ✸	P: 779	Rec, pl. XXVII.10	17	2.52	12		Show
3	3	C: 178/1948 (Grant)		17	3.14	12		Show