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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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 1
2 2     Nomos obolos 14, 15 Dec. 2019, lot 313
3 3     ✸ Savoca London 3 Silver, 15 Sept. 2019, lot 168
4 4     IMJ Sofaer 153
5 5     IMJ Sofaer 154
6 6     IMJ Sofaer 155
7 7     IMJ Sofaer 156
8 8     IMJ Sofaer 157
9 9     IMJ Sofaer 158
10 10     IMJ Sofaer 159
11 11     IMJ Sofaer 160
12 12     IMJ Sofaer 161
13 13     IMJ Sofaer 162
14 14     IMJ Sofaer 163
15 15     Leeds-UL: 12
16 16     Freiburg: 12536
17 17     Freiburg: 12539
18 18     Freiburg: 020
19 19     Freiburg: 022
20 20     Freiburg: 023
21 21     Freiburg: 024
22 22     Freiburg: 026
23 23     Freiburg: 025
24 24     Freiburg: 027
25 25     Freiburg: 021
26 26     Münster: M 1524
27 27     Boston: 72.473.24
28 28     Boston: 2004.1358
29 29     Boston: 2004.1359
30 30     Boston: 2004.1361
31 31     Boston: 2004.1362
32 32     Cop SNG 72
33 33     Cop SNG 73
34 34     Brisbane: 1664
35 35     Brisbane: 2768
36 36     Brisbane: 2318
37 37     Brisbane: 2778
38 38     Brisbane: 3126
39 39     Brisbane: 3127
40 40     Regensburg: 18078-764