RPC I, 4063

 

Image of specimen #21

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4063
Province Syria
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Anazarbus
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Issue Year 86
Dating AD 67/68
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Νέρων Καῖσαρ
Translation Nero Caesar
Obverse design laureate head of Nero, right
Reverse inscription ΕΤΟΥϹ ϚΠ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ
Edition ἔτους ϛπʹ Καισαρέων
Translation of the year 86, of the Caesareans
Reverse design veiled Boule seated, left, with amphora and tessera in hand
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 16 mm
Average weight 4.06 g
Axis 12
Reference BMC 6, Ziegler 50–69
Specimens 27 (10 in the core collections)
Note Ziegler interprets the type as 'Boule sitzend l., einen Stimmstein in eine Vase werfend'. Specimen 20 clearly shows a tessera in the hand of the Boule.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 153 Wa 4104
2 2     P: 973
3 3     L BMC 6
4 4     O
5 5     O
6 6     O
7 7     O
8 8     NY: 1944.100.53050
9 9     NY: 1944.100.53051
10 10     CGT coll. ex VCoins Beast Coins ex K. Emmett Coll. ex Colosseum Coin Exchange, May 1993
11 11     vA 5472
12 12     Levante 1368
13 13     Waddell 32 (1988), lot 139
14 14     MünzZentrum 53, lot 1819
15 15     Lanz 44 (1988), lot 519
16 16     R. Ziegler, Münzen Kilikiens aus kleineren deutschen Sammlungen, 953
17 17     R. Ziegler, Münzen Kilikiens aus kleineren deutschen Sammlungen, 954
18 18     Düsseldorf: Ls2004008401 R. Ziegler, Münzen Kilikiens aus kleineren deutschen Sammlungen, 955
19 19     R. Ziegler, Münzen Kilikiens aus kleineren deutschen Sammlungen, 956
20 20     CNG MBS 70, 21 Sept. 2005, lot 638
21 21     ✸ Naumann 63, 4 Mar. 2018, lot 128
22 22     vA 5471
23 23     D. Lowe coll.
24 24     NY: 1953.171.677
25 25     Fritz Rudolf Künker EA 63, 30 Nov. 2020, lot 177
26 26     Agora 108, 27 Dec. 2022, lot 171
27 27     Leu EA 10, 7 Dec. 2019, lot 840