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	mun(icipium) Cal(agurris) IIvir
Translation	the municipality of Calagurris, duovir
Obverse design	bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription	L POMPE BVCCO L CORNE FRONT(O)
Edition	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	28 mm
Average weight	8.76 g
Specimens	2 (0 in the core collections)
Addition	Additional coin-type (post publication)

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	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