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I, 511
Image of specimen #1
Coin type
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/511
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Volume
I
Number
511
Province
Gallia Lugdunensis
Region
Gaul
City
Lugdunum
Reign
Roman Republic
Magistrate
Lucius Munatius Plancus
Dating
end of 43 BC
Obverse inscription
COPIA FELIX
Edition
Copia Felix
Translation
Abundant and fortunate
Obverse design
turret head of the city goddess with cornucopia
Reverse inscription
MVNATIA
Edition
Munatia
Translation
Munatia
Reverse design
a galloping bull, left, checked by Hercules; in the field, right, a club
Metal
bronze
Average diameter
16 mm
Average weight
2.48 g
Axis
2, 5
Reference
FITA 206–7, Giard 1
Specimens
4 (1 in the core collections)
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
. Thanks to Nicolas Dubreu for providing photos of specimen 4.
Correction
Corrected coin-type (post publication)
Specimens of this coin type
Number
Number
Obverse
Reverse
Museum
Bibliography
Diameter
Weight
Axis
Note
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1
1
✸
P: F 9914
FITA, pl. VII, 24
15
3.00
2
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2
2
Coll. P. C. Vian
15
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3
3
Pommiers
15
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4
4
Musée Lugdunum: 2003.1.019
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
18
1.95
5
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