RPC I, 3017


Image of specimen #13

Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	3017
Province	Asia
Subprovince	Conventus of Sardis
Region	Lydia
City	Philadelphia
Reign	Tiberius
Person (obv.)	Tiberius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription	ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟΝ
Edition	Τιβέριον Σεβαστὸν
Translation	for Tiberius Augustus
Obverse design	bare head of Tiberius, right
Reverse inscription	ΝΕΟΚΕϹΑΡΕΙΣ
Edition	Νεοκεσάρεις
Translation	the Neocaesarians
Reverse design	winged thunderbolt
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	15 mm
Average weight	2.99 g
Axis	3, 9, 12
Reference	LS 120, no. 24
Specimens	20 (8 in the core collections)
Die-links	1–9: same obv. die. 14, 18–19: same obv. die.
Note	See J. Clark, 'The renaming of Philadelphia Neocaesarea under the emperor Tiberius', NC 180 (2020), pp. 127-31, for a die study and confirmation of the attribution to Tiberius. The reading is clear on the rare die 21481. The letters are sometimes retrograde or upside down. The reverse inscription ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ also occurs.

Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	L: 1929,1013.566		14	3.35		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
2	L: 1914,0810.7		14	3.12		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
3	P: 957	Wa 6359	14	2.94		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
4		Lanz 94 (Benz), 22 Nov. 1999, lot 167 (ex Müller 43 (Sept. 1983) lot 205; Schweizerische Kreditanstalt, Münzenliste 42 (Februar 1984, Bern), lot 120)	16	2.73		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
5	C: 353/1948		14	2.95		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ. Grant: 'Tiberius gemellus'	Show
6	Cop	SNG 373	14	3.10		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
7	Mu		14	3.19		ΝΕΟΚΕϹΑΡΕΙΣ	Show
8	V: GR 15137		15	2.43	3	ΝΕΟΚΕϹΑΡΕΙΣ	Show
9	B: 18203738, B-I		16	2.75	9	ΝΕΟΚΕϹΑΡΕΙΣ	Show
10		Hauck und Aufhäuser 16, 16–17 Oct. 2001, lot 269		2.73			Show
11		F. Kovacs, MBS XVI, 29 Sept. 2004, lot 252		2.88		Probably the best preserved specimen, but the letters before the head are still not clear	Show
12		NAC 72, 16 May 2013, lot 591 = ex Hauck and Aufhäuser 19, 21–22 Mar. 2006, lot 269	14	3.10		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
13 ✸		J. Clark coll.		3.37		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
14		Naumann 63, 4 Mar. 2018, lot 751	15	3.18			Show
15		CNG Triton XXIV, 19 Jan. 2021, lot 102 (ex Nomos Obolos 5, 26 June 2016, lot 333)	17	3.61	3		Show
16		CGT coll.	14	2.50	12		Show
17		J. Clark coll. (ex Leu WA 15, 27 Feb. 2021, lot 1171)	14	2.61		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
18		J. Clark coll., ex Savoca Blue 11, 27 Oct. 2018, lot 1205	13	3.31		ΝΕΟΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΙϹ	Show
19		see NC 2020, p. 131, no. 6c, with Pl. 26.8	14	2.92			Show
20		Gabriel Pacífico coll. (ex CNG 81, 20 May 2009, lot 784)	15	2.94	9		Show

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