RPC I, 451B


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Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	451B
Province	Tarraconensis
Region	Hispania
City	Calagurris
Reign	Augustus
Person (obv.)	Augustus
Magistrate	Lucius Cornelius Fronto (duovir) ; Lucius Pompeius Bucco (duovir)
Issue	Hybrid (obv. Calagurris; rev. Lepida)
Dating	ca. 20s BC.
Obverse inscription	MVN CAL IIVIR
Edition	municipium Calagurris IIviri mun(icipium) Cal(agurris) IIvir(i)
Translation	the municipality of Calagurris, duovirs
Obverse design	bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription	L POMPE BVCCO L CORNE FRONT(O)
Edition	Lucius Pompeius Bucco Lucius Cornelius Fronto L(ucius) Pompe(ius) Bucco L(ucius) Corne(lius) Fronto
Translation	Lucius Pompeius Bucco, Lucius Cornelius Fronto
Reverse design	bull, right
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	29 mm
Average weight	9.09 g
Specimens	3 (0 in the core collections)
Addition	Additional coin-type (post publication)

#	Specimen	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Note	More
1	1	Cores coll. = NH 1, 1952, p. 248 = Gac. Num. 1969: 21–22	28			Show
2	2 ✸	Herrero 24 May 2012, lot 37		8.76	the coin has more corrupted legends than coin number 1; 3. Albacete Museum, ex coll. Sánchez Jiménez, 11.41 (info from J. M. Vidal Bardán 1992, Hallazgos nu- mismáticos de la Meseta oriental (ciclo colonial), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, PhD, p. 296, no 601). Coins 2 and 3 share the same dies. For these see T. Hurtado, 2013, Las emisiones monetarias de la colonia Victrix Iulia Lep- ida-Celsa, Valencia, PhD, pp. 357-358.	Show
3	3	Private coll.	30	9.41	The coin has corrupted legends. Coins 2 and 3 share the reverse die.	Show