RPC I, 5002A


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Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	5002A
Province	Egypt
Region	Egypt
City	Alexandria
Reign	Augustus
Person (obv.)	Augustus
Issue	Second (?) series
Dating	after 19 BC
Obverse inscription	ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ
Edition	Σεβαστός
Translation	Augustus
Obverse design	bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription	ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Edition	Καῖσαρ
Translation	Caesar
Reverse design	in laurel wreath
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	35 mm
Average weight	34.30 g
Axis	12
Specimens	1 (1 in the core collections)
Note	The earliest example of the large ‘drachm’ size bronze from Alexandria.
Addition	Additional coin-type (post publication)

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			P: 2008/66	Soheir Bakhoum coll.	35	34.30	12	D. Gerin, ‘La petite collection alexandrine de Soheir Bakhoum’ in D. Gerin, A. Geissen and M. Amandry (eds), Aegyptiaca serta in Soheir Bakhoum memoriam. Mélanges de numismatique, d’iconographie et d’histoire, Collezioni Numismatiche 7 (Milano, 2008), pp. 21-36. See A. Burnett, SNR 88 (2009), 25-6.	Show