RPC I, 4106

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 4106
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Uncertain Syrian mint of CA coinage III
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Obverse inscription AVGVST·TR·POT
Edition August(us) tr(ibunicia) pot(estate)
Translation Augustus, with tribunician power
Obverse design laureate head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription ΛΤ CA
Edition ΛΤ CA
Translation LT CA
Reverse design inscription in two lines in laurel wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 9.63 g
Axis 5, 12
Reference BMC 742, AMC 718, FITA 344, RIC 504, Howgego 7, McAlee 197
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.504
Specimens 33 (7 in the core collections)
Note Countermark: IMPOTHO (GIC 593: |G 297). The countermark occurs otherwise only on SC bronzes of Antioch. Howgego made a die study of twenty-four coins, which had two obv. and eighteen rev. dies.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 1005
2 2     P: 1004
3 3     P: 1006
4 4     L BMC 742
5 5     L BMC 743
6 6     L BMC 744
7 7     L: 1974,0417.2
8 8 –26     see Howgego
27 27     CGT coll. = Naville Numismatics 23, 12 June 2016, lot 238
28 28     Savoca 5, 8 Nov. 2015, lot 247
29 29     Roma Numismatics EA 32, 7 Jan. 2017, lot 552
30 30     VAuctions 327, 14 Nov. 2017, lot 340
31 31     CGT coll. = Saint Paul 15, 27 Jan. 2018, lot 253
32 32     J. Clark coll.
33 33     Zeus EA 22, 23 Jan. 2022, lot 544