RPC I, 2490

 

Image of specimen #79

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 2490
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Nero
Magistrate Tiberius Claudius Hieronymos (strategos) ; Tiberius Claudius Sosandros (strategos)
Issue no imperial portrait
Dating c. AD 68/9
Obverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΤΙ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ ΙΕΡΩΝΥΜΟΥ
Obverse design Nemesis standing, r.
Reverse inscription ϹΤΡΑ ΤΙ (ΚΛΑ)(Υ) ϹΩϹΑΝΔΡΟΥ/Ϲ ΖΜΥ(Ρ)
Reverse design river-god, reclining, l., holding reed in his r. Hans, his l. arm on urn from which water flows
Metal Brass
Average diameter 21 mm
Axis 6, 11, 12
Reference Klose III B b
Specimens 80 (3 in the core collections)
Note Perhaps also bronze? Overstruck over Nero/river-god (2483–4: O, NY, V), and perhaps Caligula (2471: BMC 128). 29 obv. and 46 rev. dies. The overstriking (cf. 2489) suggests that some coins may be of bronze; see also introduction.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 128
2 2 –75     see Klose
76 76     Mu
77 77     Mu
78 78     Leeds-UL: 738
79 79     ✸ Peus 409, 25 Apr. 2013, lot 574
80 80     Münster: M 1145