RPC I, 3523

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 3523
Province Galatia
Region Pisidia
City Sagalassus
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Obverse inscription ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
Edition Καῖσ(αρ) Σεβαστός
Translation Caesar Augustus
Obverse design bare head of Augustus (?), right
Reverse inscription ϹΑΓΑΛΑϹϹΕωΝ
Edition Σαγαλασσέων
Translation of the Sagalassians
Reverse design laureate head of Zeus, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 4.44 g
Axis 12
Reference AMC 1421
Specimens 9 (6 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3–7: same obv. die.
Note For specimens found in excavations at Sagalassus in 1992, see (eds) M. Waelkens and J. Poblome, Sagalassus II (Leuven, 1993), p. 249 nos. 9-10; cf. no. 15? (similar portrait/seated Zeus on reverse).

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     O AMC 1421
2 2     ✸ P: 561 Wa 3820
3 3     B: Fox
4 4     B: B-I RSN 1913, 90, no. 255
5 5     Mu: 3
6 6     Mu: 4
7 7     vA 8621
8 8     CGT coll. ex eBay Lanz ex Gorny & Mosch 126, 14 Oct. 2003, lot 1980
9 9     N&N London EA 19, 1 July 2023, lot 427