RPC I, 4086

 

Image of specimen #20

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4086
Province Syria
Region Cilicia
City Uncertain Caesarea(s)
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Claudius (Augustus)
Issue Year 5
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟϹ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition Τιβέριος Κλαύδιος Καῖσαρ
Translation Tiberius Claudius Caesar
Obverse design bare head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ ΕΤΟΥϹ Ε
Edition Καισαρέων ἔτους εʹ
Translation of the Caesareans, year 5
Reverse design veiled Tyche, seated right, on rocks and holding ears of corn; below, river god
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Average weight 8.57 g
Axis 10, 11, 12
Reference BMC Anazarbus 4, Ganschow I, p. 58 Typ X4
Specimens 23 (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).

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1912,0101.10
2 2     L BMC 4
3 3     P: 148 Wa 6744
4 4     P: 149 Wa 6745
5 5     P: Y28.600
6 6     O
7 7     O
8 8     B: Löbb.
9 9     B: I-B
10 10     C
11 11     Mu: 17a
12 12     NY: 1944.100.53047
13 13     NY: 1944.100.53048
14 14     Waddell 9.12.1982, lot 544
15 15     Waddell 9 (1985), lot 211
16 16     Afyon: 4943
17 17     Afyon: 5825
18 18     Naville Numismatics 56, 22 Mar. 2020, lot 213 (ex Hirsch 214, 2000, lot 1617; NAC 72, 16 May 2013, lot 1501; Naville Numismatics 47, 3 Mar. 2019, lot 184)
19 19     Henseler 106
20 20     ✸ VAuctions 328, 15 Dec. 2017, lot 318
21 21     Rauch 92, 22 Apr. 2013, lot 1245
22 22     Münster: M 1354
23 23     CGT coll. ex G. Rohde coll.