RPC I, 4781

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 4781
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Damascus
Reign Roman Republic
Person (obv.) Cleopatra VII (queen)
Issue Year 276
Dating 37/36 BC
Obverse inscription
Obverse design diademed bust of Cleopatra, right
Reverse inscription ΔΑΜΑΣΚΗΝΩΝ ϚΟΣ
Reverse design Tyche seated, left, on rock with arm outstretched and holding cornucopia; before, ear of corn; below, river god; all in wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 12
Reference de Saulcy p. 34, 2, Cop 419, Sv Ptol 1890
Specimens 23 (7 in the core collections)
Note De Saulcy no. records a variety with year ΕΟΣ, but this seems just a misreading of the square S.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.79323
2 2     P: 28 SV, pl. 63.16
3 3     P: Seyrig
4 4     Cop SNG 419
5 5     G: 1 (pl. 75.1)
6 6     V: GR 21852
7 7     V: GR 21853
8 8     Rosenberger 5
9 9     JSW
10 10     Sternberger XIII (1983), lot 263
11 11     MMAG 41 (1970), lot 307
12 12     Malter 2 (1978), lot 292
13 13     Malter 2 (1978), lot 293
14 14     MMAG 396 (1978), lot 39 = CNG 46, 24 June 1998, lot 474
15 15 –21     RW
22 22     Gemini X, 13 Jan. 2013, lot 445
23 23     Wildwinds