RPC I, 3869

 

Image of specimen #11

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 3869
Province Commagene
Region Commagene
City Uncertain mint in Commagene
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Dating AD 19/20
Obverse inscription TI CAESAR DIVI AVGVSTI F AVGVSTVS
Edition Ti(berius) Caesar Divi Augusti f(ilius) Augustus
Translation Tiberius Caesar, son of the divine Augustus, Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Tiberius, right
Reverse inscription PONT MAXIM COS III IMP VII TR POT XXII
Edition Pont(ifex) Maxim(us) Co(n)s(ul) III Imp(erator) VII Tr(ibunicia) Pot(estate) XXII
Translation Chief Priest, Consul for the third time, Emperor for the seventh time, holder of the tribunician power for the 22th time
Reverse design caduceus between crossed cornucopias
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 14.76 g
Axis 12
Reference RIC 90, BMC 175
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).tib.90
Specimens 22 (12 in the core collections)
Note Attribution to Commagene not certain. L 1936-10-13-37, with a retrograde rev. legend, is presumably an imitation. Countermarks: see introduction.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1959,0305.1
2 2     L BMC 175
3 3     L BMC 176
4 4     L
5 5     L
6 6     L
7 7     P: 163
8 8     P: 166
9 9     P: 167
10 10     P: de Ricci
11 11     ✸ B: 18211867
12 12     P: AA.GR.21062 Saulcy-Engel.285 = R.Mowat, RN 1911, p. 422-7 (reading ΚΟΡ, for Corbulo) (giving the weight as 16.71)
13 13     Pecunem 11, 29 Dec. 2013, lot 492
14 14     CNG 469, 3 June 2020, lot 233 (ex CNG 434, 12 Dec. 2018, lot 218)
15 15     London Coins 165, 1 June 2019, lot 2087
16 16     cgb.fr EA 24 Jan. 2023, lot 706959
17 17     Fritz Rudolf Künker 63, 30 Nov. 2020, lot 150
18 18     Zeus 4, 9 Feb. 2020, lot 727
19 19     Nomos obolos 20, 3 Oct. 2021, lot 1069
20 20     Naville 80, 2 April 2023, lot 132
21 21     Numisfitz 2, 4 June 2023, lot 610
22 22     Leu EA 28, 9 Dec. 2023, lot 3342