RPC I, 487

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 487
Province Uncertain
Region Hispania
City Gnaeus and Sextus Pompey's bronze mint(s)
Reign Roman Republic
Magistrate Eppius (legatus Augusti pro praetore)
Dating 45/44 BC
Obverse inscription MAGNVS, PIVS IMP F
Edition Magnus Pius Imp(erator) f(ilius)
Translation Great, Pious, commander-in-chief, son (of Pompey the Great)
Obverse design laureate head of Janus; in centre, altar
Reverse inscription EPPIVS, LEG
Edition Eppius leg(atus)
Translation Eppius, legate
Reverse design prow, right
Metal leaded bronze
Average diameter 31 mm
Average weight 15.76 g
Axis 9
Reference NZ 1909, p. 72, 3, RRC 478–1
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-478.1a
http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-478.1b
Specimens 42 (1 in the core collections)
Note See now R. Martini, Monetazione bronzea romana tardo-repubblicana. II. Sextus Pompeius. Le emissioni hispaniche del tipo CN. MAG, le serie di Eppius e gli ‘assi’ siciliani, Glaux. Serie speciale I (Milan, 1995): 17.03 g (62): 87 coins, 18 obv. dies.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: Ailly 9292
2 2 –38     see Bahrfeldt 73, 1–10, 12–38
39 39     Princeton
40 40     Sternberg VIII, 1978, lot 427
41 41     Crédit Suisse 4, 1985, lot 396
42 42     Agora Auctions Numismatic 51, 8 Mar. 2016, lot 157