RPC I, 525

 

Image of specimen #60

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 525
Province Gallia Narbonensis
Region Gaul
City Nemausus
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Agrippa ; Augustus
Dating c. AD 10/14
Obverse inscription IMP DIVI F P P
Edition Imp(erator) Divi f(ilius) P(ater) P(atriae)
Translation Emperor, son of the divine, father of the fatherland
Obverse design inscription above and below heads of Agrippa to left and Augustus to right back to back; Agrippa wears a rostral crown combined with a laurel wreath; Augustus wears a laurel wreath
Reverse inscription COL NEM
Edition col(onia) Nem(ausus)
Translation colony of Nemausus
Reverse design inscription to left and right of a palm to which a crocodile is chained; above palm, wreath with long ties
Metal bronze
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 12.66 g
Axis 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 12
Reference RIC 159–61
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.159
http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.160
http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.161
Specimens 75 (60 in the core collections)
Note For the metallic composition of the Nemausus dupondii (RPC I, 522-525) and new propositions for dating group III (RPC I, 525), see now P.-A. Besombes and J.-N. Barrandon, ‘Les dupondii de Nîmes: datation, diffusion et nature du métal utilisé’, RN 157 (2001), pp. 305-328.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

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