RPC I, 4954

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 4954
Province Judaea
Region Judaea
City Jerusalem
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Issue Year 36
Dating AD 6
Obverse inscription ΚΑΙϹΑΡΟϹ
Edition Καίσαρος
Translation of Caesar
Obverse design ear of barley
Reverse inscription L ΛϚ
Edition (ἔτους) λϛʹ
Translation of year 36
Reverse design palm tree
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 16 mm
Average weight 1.78 g
Axis 11, 12
Reference Meshorer 1
Specimens 14 (6 in the core collections)
Note Date should be AD 6, not 6 BC. N. Kokkinos, ‘The prefects of Judaea 6-48 CE and coins from the Misty period 6-36 CE’, in D. M. Jacobson and N. Kokkinos (eds), Judaea and Rome in Coins (London, 2012), pp. 85-122, at 90-93, has discussed several candidates of coins of Augustus that might be dated to the year ΛΓ (33). If correctly read, the coins open up the question of the era used on the procuratorial coins.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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