RPC I, 2224

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 2224
Province Asia
Region Uncertain
City Cistophoric mint
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Claudius (Augustus) ; Agrippina II
Issue Group II (Ephesus)
Dating AD 51
Obverse inscription TI CLAVD CAES·AVG·AGRIPP·AVGVSTA
Obverse design laureate head of Claudius and draped bust of Agrippina II, jugate, left
Reverse inscription DIANA EPHESIA
Reverse design facing cult statue of Diana of Ephesus
Metal silver
Average diameter 26 mm
Axis 5, 6, 7
Reference BMC 231, RIC 119
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).cl.119
Specimens 15 (6 in the core collections)
Note Fineness: 92% (Walker, Metrology I, 421–5). 21 coins, 14 obv. dies. Countermark: IMP VES AVG (GIC 840: Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung 18 (1980) lot 104).

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 231
2 2     B: 18213947
3 3     ✸ NAC 94, 6 Oct. 2016, lot 106 (ex Glendining 15 Nov. 1949, lot 68; Glendining 26 May 1959, lot 191; Bruun Rasmussen 764, 2006, lot 5700; Ira and Larry Golberg 60, 2010, lot 2360)
4 4     V: GR 16037
5 5     P: IMP-6334
6 6     P: IMP-6335
7 7     NY: 1944.100.39366
8 8     V-Universität: S_00825
9 9     D. KImel coll. (ex Superior, 8 Dec. 1993, lot 1848; Markov The New York Sale 54, 11 Jan. 2022, lot 219)
10 10     F. Vink coll. (ex L. Schulman 19 (Naarden), 18 Nov. 1997, lot 1434)
11 11     Boston: 60.522
12 12     Oslo Myntgalleri AS 28, 6 May 2022, lot 264
13 13     Oslo Myntgalleri AS 28, 6 May 2022, lot 266
14 14     CNG 434, 12 Dec. 2018, lot 217
15 15     Brisbane: 2554