RPC I, 4981

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 4981
Province Judaea
Region Judaea
City Jerusalem
Reign Agrippa I
Person (obv.) Agrippa I (king)
Issue Year 6
Dating AD 41/2
Obverse inscription ΒΑϹΙΛΕΩϹ ΑΓΡΙΠΑ
Edition Βασιλέως Ἀγρίπ<π>α
Translation of King Agrippa
Obverse design canopy
Reverse inscription L Ϛ
Edition (ἔτους) ϛʹ
Translation of year 6
Reverse design three ears of corn
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 17 mm
Average weight 2.59 g
Axis 6, 10, 11, 12
Reference Meshorer 11
Specimens 40 (3 in the core collections)
Note For overstrikes and variations in style, etc., see Meshorer 11a-j. .K. Lonnquist (A re-attribution of the King Herod Agrippa I ‘Year 6’ issue, Liber Annuus 47 (1997), pp. 429-440) has suggested a reattribution to Agrippa II and to Caesarea, but we still prefer Agrippa I and Jerusalem. This is not accepted by A. Kushnir-Stein, Some Observations on Palestinian Coins with a Bevelled Edge, INJ 14 (2000-2), pp. 78-83.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

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