RPC I, 3564 (forgery)

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 3564 (forgery)
Province Galatia
Region Galatia
City Koinon of Galatia
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Poppaea
Issue Series 4: (a) Tavium?
Dating 62/5
Obverse inscription ΠΟΠΠΑΙΑ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ
Edition Ποππαία Σεβαστή Ποππαία Σεβαστή
Translation Poppaea Augusta
Obverse design bust of Poppaea, right
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΩΝ (sic) ΓΑΛΑΤΩΝ
Reverse design altar
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 16 mm
Average weight 4.07 g
Axis 6
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note Original comment (1992): "This coin is almost certainly a forgery; the style (especially of the portrait) is odd, the die axis is wrong and the nominative case unlikely. It has probably been altered from something else. It may perhaps be a copy of an otherwise genuine, though not extant, coin, since one would expect a third denomination (see introduction)." Later update, for its source as a fake with the 18th century faker Osman Bey, see  D. Williams, ‘Osman Bey of Constantinople: a late 18th century forger of ancient coins’, RN 176 (2019), pp. 361-83, at 368, no 6 and 374

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
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