RPC I, 4774

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 4774
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Chalcis ad Belum
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Person (rev.) Zenodorus (tetrarch)
Issue Year 282
Dating 31/30 BC
Obverse inscription ΝΕ L ΒΠΣ
Edition ΝΕ (ἔτους) βπσʹ
Translation NE(?), of year 282
Obverse design bare head of Octavian, right
Reverse inscription ΖΗΝΟΔΩΡΟΥ ΤΕΤΡΑΡΧΕΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΗΡΕΩΣ
Edition Ζηνοδώρου τετράρχει καὶ ἀρχ{η}<ιε>ρέως
Translation of Zenodorus, tetrarch and high priest
Reverse design bare head of Zenodorus, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 21 mm
Average weight 5.60 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference AMC 866
Specimens 24 (9 in the core collections)
Note The date is sometimes retrograde; the Β is sometimes broken and can look like a Δ. The correct reverse legend is ΖΗΝΟΔΟΡΟΥ ΤΕΤΡΑΡΧEI ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΗΡΕΩΣ, not ΤΕΤΡΑΡΧΟΥ. Either a minting error, or a wrong form of genitive case. Thanks to P. Mastrangelis for comments.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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