RPC I, 4740

 

Image of specimen #16

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4740
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Ptolemais
Reign Roman Republic
Person (obv.) Mark Antony (imperator)
Issue Year 11
Dating 39/38 BC
Obverse inscription
Obverse design bare head of Antony, right; all in wreath
Reverse inscription ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΕΩΝ ΙΕΡΑΣ, L ΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ (in field)
Reverse design Tyche standing, left, with aplustre and palm branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference Seyrig 19 (Rouvier 993, Kadman 73)
Specimens 18 (6 in the core collections)
Die-links 8: same obv. die as 4741/1.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.71201 NC 1938, pl. I.2, ex Rouvier
2 2     L BMC 14
3 3     P Bab 1960
4 4     B
5 5     C
6 6     NY: 2008.24.9 P. Villemur coll., ex Schweizerische Kreditanstalt 2 (1984), lot 437 = CNG Triton XI, 8 Jan. 2008, lot 516
7 7     Beirut-AUB Baramki 8
8 8     Agora Coins 2 (1975), lot 161 ('7.91') = Sternberg (Nov. 1976), lot 693
9 9     Empire 5 (1986), lot 111
10 10     Moreira (Superior 10.12.1988), lot 2103
11 11     RW
12 12     Nomos AG (100 Distinctive Numismatic Items), Winter-Spring 2008, lot 74 = A. Levin Collection (Goldberg, 28 May 2007), lot 2686 = CNG Triton XXIV, 19 Jan. 2021, lot 62
13 13     RBW (ex Coin Galleries, 7 Nov. 1990, lot 343)
14 14     RBW (ex Superior, 8 Dec. 1995, lot 1411)
15 15     Leu EA 3, 25 Feb. 2018, lot 737
16 16     ✸ IMJ Sofaer 117
17 17     IMJ Sofaer 118
18 18     H. Berk BBS 215, 19 Apr. 2021, lot 306