RPC I, 4084

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 4084
Province Syria
Region Cilicia
City Uncertain Caesarea(s)
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Claudius (Augustus)
Issue Year 3
Obverse inscription ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Κλαύδιος Καῖσαρ
Translation Claudius Caesar
Obverse design laureate head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription ΕΤΟΥϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ Γ
Edition ἔτους Καισαρέων γʹ
Translation of the year of the Caesareans 3
Reverse design veiled head of Tyche, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 5.39 g
Axis 1, 2, 12
Reference BMC Anazarbus 5, Cop (Caesarea, Capp.) 177, Rec (Amisus) 73, Ganschow I, p. 56 Typ X2
Specimens 27 (13 in the core collections)
Note See now B. Tahberer, 'A Series of Coins from an Uncertain Caesarea', NC 175 (2015), pp. 47-55 where it is argued with good arguments, mostly stylistic, that these series were struck at Mopsus between AD 45/6 and AD 50/1, during a period Mopsus when called itself Caesarea, although “one can only speculate as to why the change was so short-lived” (p. 53). A further specimen is in the  Niğde Museum (see below).
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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