RPC I, 4752

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 4752
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Dora
Reign Roman Republic
Person (obv.) Cleopatra VII (queen) ; Mark Antony (imperator)
Issue Year 19
Dating 34/33 BC
Obverse inscription
Obverse design jugate busts of Cleopatra and Antony, right
Reverse inscription L ΘΙ ΔΩ
Edition (ἔτους) θιʹ Δῶ(ρα)
Translation of year 19, Dora
Reverse design Tyche standing, left, with palm branch and caduceus
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 8.17 g
Axis 10, 12
Reference Meshorer 13
Specimens 9 (0 in the core collections)
Note Dated to (Pompeian) year 19 (=45/44 BC) by Meshorer, who identifies the portraits as Cleopatra and Ptolemy XV (see introduction). M. Crawford, CMRR, p. 253, n. 19, states that these coins have the Ptolemaic mark of value Π.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     trade = SM 1983, 10, no.2 = M.H. Crawford, Coinage and Money in the Roman Republic, p. 255, fig. 109
2 2     A. Kindler, Alon 4/2 (Oct. 1969), 22f., no. 3 = Rosenberger (Ptolemais) 18 = SM 1983, 10, no. 1
3 3     Sofaer coll. = Meshorer, pl. 19.13
4 4     Dora excavations (see Meshorer)
5 5     RBW
6 6     RBW (ex Heritage 3003, The Shoshana coll., 9 Mar. 2012, lot 20607)
7 7     CNG 97, 17 Sept. 2014, lot 513
8 8     NAC 84, 20 May 2015, lot 872
9 9     ✸ M. Stolt coll. (ex CNG EA 488, 24 Mar. 2021, lot 353) = CNG Triton XXV, 11 Jan. 2022, lot 682