RPC I, 4820


Image of specimen #5

Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	4820
Province	Syria
Region	Syria
City	Gadara
Reign	Claudius
Person (obv.)	Claudius (Augustus)
Issue	Year 114
Dating	AD 50/1
Obverse inscription	ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
Edition	Σεβαστός
Translation	Augustus
Obverse design	laureate head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription	ΓΑΔΑΡΑ, ΔΙΡ (in field)
Edition	Γάδαρα διρʹ
Translation	Gadara, (year) 114
Reverse design	crossed cornucopias
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	13 mm
Average weight	2.29 g
Axis	11, 12
Reference	Spijkerman 20
Specimens	8 (2 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	NY: 1952.142.392	SNG 1297	12	1.82	12		Show
2	2	J-SBF	Spijkerman 20	13	2.17	12		Show
3	3	Kadman	see Rosenberger 27	13	2.20	12		Show
4	4	Bern	SNG 2202				seems to read ϹΕΒΑ[ ]ϹΑΡΙ, suggesting a different obverse reading (ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ in RPC was taken from Spijkerman, but is not, in fact, clear on any of the three specimens cited in RPC). But the date is not clear on the Bern piece.	Show
5	5 ✸	IMJ	Sofaer 17	12.9	2.39			Show
6	6	NY: 1999.32.104		12	3.00	11		Show
7	7		CGT coll.	12	2.27	12		Show
8	8		Goldberg 103, 20 Feb. 2018, lot 2105	13.1	2.16			Show