RPC I, 451C

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 451C
Province Tarraconensis
Region Hispania
City Calagurris
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Magistrate Gaius Balbus (praefectus duovir) ; Lucius Porcius (praefectus duovir)
Issue Hybrid (obv. Calagurris; rev. Lepida)
Dating ca. 20s BC.
Obverse inscription MV CAL IVL
Edition mu(nicipium) Cal(agurris) Iul(ia)
Translation the Julian municipality of Calagurris
Obverse design bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription C BALBO L PORCIO
Edition C(aio) Balbo L(ucio) Porcio
Translation under Gaius Balbus (and) Lucius Porcius
Reverse design bull, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note Balbus and Porcius were PR IIVIR in Lepida (see RPC 262), but on this coin the magistracy is not stated, because on the original issue their magistracy was mentioned on the obv.
Addition Additional coin-type (post publication)
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Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ S. Vela coll. = P. P. Ripollès and M. M. Llorens, Arse-Saguntum: Historia monetaria de la ciudad y su territorio, Sagunto, 2002, p. 259, no. 145)