RPC I, 3564 (forgery)

 

Image of specimen #1

 

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
Translation Poppaea Augusta
Obverse design bust of Poppaea, right
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΩΝ
Edition Κοινόν Γαλατῶν
Translation Koinon of the Galatians
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 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).

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Mu