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
Obverse design laureate head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription ΕΤΟΥϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ Γ
Reverse design veiled head of Tyche, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Axis 1, 2, 12
Reference BMC Anazarbus 5, Cop (Caesarea, Capp.) 177, Rec (Amisus) 73, Ganschow I, p. 56 Typ X2
Specimens 26 (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 called itself Caesarea, though “one can only speculate as to why the change was so short-lived” (p. 53).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1979,0101.2705 ex vA 6348
2 2     L BMC Anazarbus 5
3 3     L: 1920,0728.49
4 4     L: 1929,1013.461
5 5     B: Löbb (Caesarea Samaria)
6 6     B: Löbb (Caesarea Samaria)
7 7     P: Anazarbus s.n.
8 8     P: 150 Wa 6746
9 9     Cop SNG 177
10 10     NY: 1944.100.53049
11 11     NY: 1944.100.62432
12 12     O
13 13     Rosenberger III, 38, no. 5
14 14     Rec, pl. G. 22
15 15     ✸ priv Coll H.I. (ex Pecunem Gitbud & Naumann 9, 3 Nov. 2013, lot 371)
16 16     Henseler 96
17 17     Henseler 97
18 18     Henseler 98
19 19     Henseler 99
20 20     Henseler 100
21 21     Henseler 101
22 22     Henseler 102
23 23     Henseler 103
24 24     Leeds-UL: 990
25 25     C: 1992/120
26 26     Roma Numismatics EA 109, 11 May 2023, lot 809