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
Obverse design bare head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ ΕΤΟΥϹ Ε
Reverse design veiled Tyche, seated right, on rocks and holding ears of corn; below, river god
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 10, 11, 12
Reference BMC Anazarbus 4, Ganschow I, p. 58 Typ X4
Specimens 22 (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