RPC I, 3139

 

Image of specimen #18

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 3139
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Apamea
Region Phrygia
City Eumenea
Reign Roman Republic
Person (obv.) Fulvia
Magistrate Zmertorix, son of Philonides
Issue With Fulvia as city name
Dating c. 41/40 BC
Obverse inscription
Obverse design head of Fulvia as Nike, right
Reverse inscription ΦΟΥΛΟΥΙΑΝΩΝ ΖΜΕΡΤΟΡΙΓΟΣ ΦΙΛΩΝΙΔΟΥ
Reverse design Athena advancing, left, with vertical spear and shield
Metal leaded bronze
Average diameter 20 mm
Axis 11, 12
Reference BMC 20
Specimens 48 (22 in the core collections)
Die-links 4–5: same pair of dies. 8, 17: same pair of dies. 4–5, 7, 32: same obv. die. 8, 10, 17, 22, 28, 33, 40: same obv. die. 9, 23: same obv. die. 11, 18, 21, 34–5, 37–8, 43: same obv. die. 12, 19, 26–7: same obv. die. 13–14, 16, 20, 25: same obv. die. 31, 36: same obv. die. 39, 41: same obv. die. 14, 26: same rev. die. 16, 31: same rev. die. 35, 42: same rev. die.
Note Not a complete listing of specimens. For the first attributions of these coins to Eumenea, based on name and types, see Borrell, Catalogue 457, and Waddington, RN, 1853, p. 248. Countermarks (on obv., combined with erasure of ethnic on rev.): two Greek monograms (see introduction) (2–3). 3139-41: R.A. Fischer, Fulvia und Octavia (Berlin, 1999) has provided a die study and commentary (pp. 141-9, 227-41, 283-93): 45 specimens from 11 dies.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 20
2 2     L BMC 21
3 3     L: 1935,0202.12
4 4     P: 1146 Wa 6046, pl. XVI.11
5 5     P: 1147
6 6     Aufhäuser, 21 Oct. 1985, lot 191
7 7     NY: 2015.20.1548 Aufhäuser, 21 Oct. 1985, lot 193
8 8     NY: 2015.20.1546
9 9     NY: 2015.20.1547
10 10     NY: 2015.20.1552
11 11     NY: 2015.20.1554
12 12     NY: 2015.20.1555
13 13     NY: 2015.20.1549 Müller 43, 9 Sept. 1983, lot 186
14 14     NY: 2015.20.1550 Lanz 32, 29 Apr. 1985, lot 385
15 15     Hauck und Aufhäuser 15, 21 Mar. 2000, lot 273
16 16     D. Kimel coll.
17 17     Roma Numismatics EA 73, 23 July 2020, lot 584
18 18     ✸ M. Stollt coll. (ex CNG Triton XXIV, 19 Jan. 2021, lot 61; Triton V, 15 Jan. 2002, lot 506)
19 19     CGT coll. ex G. Rohde coll.
20 20     NY: 2015.20.1560
21 21     Bucephalus Numismatic 15, 10 Feb. 2023, lot 536
22 22     Bucephalus Numismatic 15, 10 Feb. 2023, lot 537
23 23     Münzen & Medaillen 12, 10 April 2003, lot 214
24 24     Naumann 107, 5 Sep. 2021, lot 1097
25 25     CNG EA 529, 14 Dec. 2022, lot 471
26 26     CNG EA 347, 25 Mar. 2015, lot 367
27 27     CNG 70, 21 Sep. 2005, lot 635
28 28     NY: 2015.20.1557
29 29     NY: 2015.20.2809
30 30     NY: 2015.20.2810
31 31     NY: 2015.20.1551
32 32     NY: 2015.20.1553 Müller 57, 24 Feb. 1986, lot 198
33 33     NY: 2015.20.1556
34 34     NY: 2015.20.1558 van der Dussen 23, 6 April 1995, lot 395
35 35     NY: 2015.20.1559 Giessener 71, 3 May 1995, lot 355
36 36     CNG 525, 19 Oct. 2022, lot 652
37 37     Roma Numismatics EA 78, 17 Dec. 2020, lot 779
38 38     Leu EA 24, 3 Dec. 2022, lot 2008
39 39     Fritz Rudolf Künker 65, 23 Feb. 2021, lot 7067
40 40     CNG 435, 2 Jan 2019, lot 235
41 41     CNG 281, 20 June 2012, lot 235
42 42     CNG 522, 24 Aug. 2022, lot 231
43 43     CNG Triton XIII, 5 Jan. 2010, lot 302
44 44     Yothr Coll.
45 45     Yothr coll.
46 46     priv Coll H.I.
47 47     priv Coll H.I.
48 48     priv Coll H.I.