RPC I, 4786

 

Image of specimen #20

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4786
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Damascus
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Issue Year 283
Dating 30/29 BC
Obverse inscription
Obverse design bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription ΔΑΜΑΣΚΗΝΩΝ L ΓΠΣ
Edition Δαμασκηνῶν (ἔτους) γπσʹ
Translation of the Damascenes, of year 283
Reverse design Tyche seated, left, on rock with arm outstretched and holding cornucopia; below, river god; all in wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.47 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference de Saulcy 1, AMC 1479
Specimens 21 (11 in the core collections)
Note The date is always retrograde.

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1910,0609.3
2 2     NY: 1961.154.324
3 3     B: 18257331, Rauch
4 4     B: 18241374, Löbb
5 5     P: 31
6 6     P: 32
7 7     O AMC 1479
8 8     V: GR 21855
9 9     Mu: 7
10 10     Rosenberger 8
12 12     JSW
13 13     JSW = CNG EA 341, 17 Dec. 2014, lot 11
14 14     JSW
15 15     JSW = CNG EA 341, 17 Dec. 2014, lot 10
16 16     P N Schulten (Köln) 22.4.1985, lot 326
17 17     RW
18 18     NY: 1944.100.79325
19 19     NY: 1944.100.79326
20 20     ✸ P. Villemur coll. = CNG MBS 78, 14 May 2008, lot 1453
21 21     Roma Numismatics EA 63, 7 Nov. 2019, lot 467
22 22     CGT coll. = Roma EA 4, 28 Dec. 2013, lot 399