RPC I, 4003

 

Image of specimen #13

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4003
Province Syria
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Trachea
City Pompeiopolis
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Issue Year 130 (?)
Dating AD 64/5
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
Edition Νέρων Καῖσαρ Σεβαστός Νέρων Καῖσαρ Σεβαστός
Translation Nero Caesar Augustus
Obverse design bare head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription ΠΟΜΠΗΙΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ, ΕΤ ΡΛ (?) (in l. field, ΑΙ ΑΝ Ν; in r. field, Α ΛΡΓΡΔΗ)
Edition Πομπηϊοπολειτῶν ἔτους ρλʹ Πομπηϊοπολειτῶν ἔτ(ους) ρλʹ
Translation of the Pompeiopolitans, of year 130
Reverse design Athena, standing, left, with Nike and spear and shield
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 9.29 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference Boyce, Pompeiopolis 27–28
Specimens 19 (9 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 7–8: same obv. die.
Note Boyce 27 is undated. The date on Boyce 28 (if there is one?) is very uncertain (though the portrait indicates a date towards the end of Nero's reign), According to Boyce, C. Bosch, 'Kaiserdaten auf Kleinasiatischen Munzen', Numismatik. Internationale Monatsschrift 2 (1931), p, 62 (non vidimus), read year 131 (based on coins in P, B and V. Boyce herself preferred 130 (see her discussion, p. 56). The only coin that could have a date is https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/281155, possibly with ƐΤ ΡΛ , but this seems very uncertain, given the incomprehensible letters which precede. The RBW specimen corrects the reading of the first series of letters as it is from the same reverse die as the one illustrated Pl. 151, 4003/1. In l. field, AI AN NI; in r. field, A ΛΡΓΡΔH. The significance of these letters remains very uncertain.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1059 SNG 1220 = Boyce 27a = Boyce NNM 153, pl. II.12
2 2     P: 1061 Wa 4516 = ? Boyce 27b
3 3     O Boyce 27d
4 4     B: 577/1895 Boyce 28e
5 5     Gotha: 577/1895 Boyce 27c
6 6     Mu: uncertain (tray 43) 2999
7 7     P: 1060 Wa 4517 = SNG 1218 = Boyce 28a ('VΙΡ ƐΤ ΡΛ' on l.) = Boyce NNM 153, pl. II.11
8 8     P: 1058 SNG 1219= ? Boyce 28b ('ΙΡ ƐΤ V - ?')
9 9     O Boyce 28c ('No letters visible along l. rim')
10 10     V: GR 37645 Boyce 28b ('no letters visible along l. rim')
11 11     Levante 887
12 12     G. Missere, F. Missere, La collezione Missere di monete romane provinciale (Modena, 1999), no. 587
13 13     ✸ RBW (ex CNG 88, 14 Sept. 2011, lot 989)
14 14     Roma Numismatics EA 12, 1 Nov. 2014, lot 1178
15 15     Leu EA 5, 23 Sept. 2018, lot 540
16 16     CNG EA 513, 6 Apr. 2022, lot 281
17 17     CGT coll.
18 18     CNG EA 510, 23 Feb. 2022, lot 442
19 19     Peus 409, 25 Apr. 2013, lot 592