RPC I, 4740

 

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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)
Edition Πτολεμαέων ἱερᾶς (ἔτους) ιαʹ καὶ ἀσύλου
Translation of the Ptolemaeans, of the sacred and inviolable (city), year 11
Reverse design Tyche standing, left, with aplustre and palm branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 9.88 g
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.
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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