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Image of specimen #8 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/4982 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | I |
Number | 4982 |
Province | Syria |
Region | Samaria |
City | Caesarea Maritima |
Reign | Claudius |
Person (obv.) | Agrippa I (king) ; Claudius (Augustus) ; Herod (king) |
Obverse inscription | ΒΑΣ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑΣ ΣΕΒ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΒΑΣ ΗΡΩ[ΔΗΣ], LΗ |
Edition | Βασ(ιλεὺς) Ἀγρίππας Σεβ(αστὸς) Καῖσαρ Βασ(ιλεὺς) Ἡρώδης (ἔτους) ηʹ |
Translation | King Agrippa, Augustus Caesar, King Herod, of year 8 |
Obverse design | Kings Agrippa and Herod crown the emperor Claudius, who stands wearing a toga capite velatio |
Reverse inscription | ΟΡΚΙΑ ΒΑΣ ΜΕ ΑΓΡΙΠΠΑ ΠΡ ΣΕΒ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ[Α Κ ΣΥ]ΝΚΛΗΤΟΝ Κ ΔΗΜ(Ο) ΡΩΜ ΦΙΛΙ Κ ΣΥ(Ν)ΜΑΧ(Ι) ΑΥΤ(ΟΥ) |
Edition | ὅρκια βασ(ιλέως) Με(γάλου) Ἀγρίππα πρ(ὸς) Σεβ(αστὸν) Καίσαρα κ(αὶ) σύνκλητον κ(αὶ) δῆμο(ν) Ῥωμ(αίων) φιλί(α) κ(αὶ) συνμαχί(α) αὐτοῦ |
Translation | oaths of King Agrippa the Great to Augustus Caesar, and the Senate and People of Rome, his friendship and alliance |
Reverse design | wreath enclosing clasped hands |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 25 mm |
Average weight | 14.81 g |
Axis | 6, 12 |
Reference | Meshorer 5; Burnett Agrippa (1987) no. 8; Burnett, Agrippa (2014) no. 4982 |
Specimens | 25 (1 in the core collections) |
Die-links | 1, 21: same rev. die. 2–5, 8, 17–18, 22, 25, 27: same rev. die. 6–7, 9, 11–12, 20: same rev. die. 10, 16: same rev. die. 14, 23–4, 28: same rev. die. |
Note | For a related issue of King Herod of Chalcis, see RPC I, 4777. See also A. J. M. Kropp, Crowning the Emperor. An unorthodox image of Claudius, Agrippa I and Herod of Chalkis, Syria 90 (2013), pp. 377-89. Many thanks to Richard Beleson, for his presentation to the ANS on 13 September 2024 (see https://youtu.be/9BtrdDvzdbI?si=uLzDNAbOG8xC1l5Y ), in which he identified some new specimens and established die-links for the reverses. He also suggested that the clasped hands represent the obverse, since on all other coins of Agrippa, this countermark is on the obverse. This is certainly what the countermarkers seemed to have thought, but the scene of kings and emperor on the Herod of Chalcis issue seems clearly to be the obverse. |
Correction | Corrected coin-type (post publication) |