RPC I, 4160

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4160
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Antioch
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Issue Years 44 and 63
Dating AD 14
Obverse inscription ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ
Edition Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ
Translation of Caesar Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ, ΔΜ (and) ΓΞ ΑΝΤ (in field)
Edition Ἀντιοχέων μητροπόλεως δμʹ γξʹ Ἀντιόχεια Ἀντιοχέων μητροπόλεως δμʹ γξʹ Ἀντ(ιόχεια)
Translation of the metropolis of the Antiochenes, (year) 44, (year) 63, Antioch
Reverse design Tyche of Antioch seated, right, with palm branch; before river god Orontes
Metal silver
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 15.23 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference Prieur 59, McAlee 189
Specimens 5 (0 in the core collections)
Note ANT could rather be ΑΥΤ, i.e. an abbreviation for αὐτονόμου (Joe Sheppard's suggestion).
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Sternberg XI (1981), lot 389
2 2     McAlee coll. ex Coin Galleries (13 Feb. 1991, lot 469)
3 3     Leu EA 10, 7 Dec. 2019, lot 902
4 4     ✸ M. Prieur coll. = CNG 111, 29 May 2019, lot 511 (ex Hirsch 185, 15 Feb. 1995, lot 689)
5 5     Richard McAlee coll.