RPC I, 2984

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 2984
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Cibyra
Region Phrygia
City Hydrela
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Magistrate Euthydoros
Obverse inscription ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
Obverse design bare head of Augustus (?), right
Reverse inscription ΕΥΘΥΔΩΡΟΣ ΥΔΡΗΛΕΙΤΩΝ
Reverse design Mên on horse, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 15 mm
Axis 12
Reference vA Phryg.I, 320
Specimens 2 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same obv. die.
Note Regarded by von Aulock, HN, and Münsterberg, Beamtennamen, as a coin of Nero, but the portrait seems more like that of Augustus, to whom Imhoof-Blumer attributed the coin.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: B-I KM 245, no. 1, with Taf. VIII.3
2 2     ✸ Naumann 80, 4 Aug. 2019, lot 406