RPC I, 397

 

Image of specimen #43

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 397
Province Tarraconensis
Region Hispania
City Bilbilis
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Magistrate Gaius Pompeius Capella (duovir for the second time) ; Gaius Valerius Tranquillus (duovir)
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 MVN AVGVSTA BILBILIS G POM CAP(E) II G VALE TRANQ, IIVIR
Edition mun(icipium) Augusta Bilbilis G(aius) Pom(peius) Cape(lla) II G(aius) Vale(rius) Tranq(uillus) IIvir(i)
Translation Municipium Augusta Bilbilis, Gaius Pompeius Capella, for the second time, (and) Gaius Valerius Tranquillus, duovirs
Reverse design laurel wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 13.24 g
Axis 12
Reference Vives 139–6, GMI 548
Specimens 43 (15 in the core collections)
Note G. Pomp. Cape. appears as IIvir iterum. The Reading CAPELL (Vives, IV, p. 56; GMI 545; NAH, p. 282; Numisma 162–4, p. 18) seems wrong.
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