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Volume
I
Number
511
Province
Gallia Lugdunensis
Region
Gaul
City
Lugdunum
Reign
Roman Republic
Magistrate
L Munatius Plancus (without title)
Dating
end of 43 BC
Obverse inscription
COPIA FELIX
Obverse design
turret head of the city goddess with cornucopia
Reverse inscription
MVNATIA
Reverse design
a galloping bull, l., checked by Hercules; in the field, r., a club
Metal
Bronze
Average diameter
15 mm
Average weight
2.48 g
Axis
2
Reference
FITA 206–7, Giard 1
Specimens
4
Note
For a new interpretation of the reverse of this coin, see A. Desbat (ed),
Lugdunum naissance d’une capitale
(2005), pp. 47-9: Hercules fights against Acheloos, the river-god who changed himself into a furious bull. Hercules offered to the goddess Copia one of its horns, hence the name
cornucopia
.
Correction
Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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1
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P: F 9914
FITA, pl. VII, 24
15
3.00
2
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2
Coll. P. C. Vian
15
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3
Pommiers
15
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4
Lyon, ‘Kybele’s Sanctuary’, 2002, 1.95 = A. Audra, ‘Trouvaille d’une monnaie de L. Munatius Plancus sur le site dit du ‘sanctuaire de Cybèle’ à Lyon (5e)’,
BSFN
61, 10, Dec. 2006, pp. 265–6
1.95
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