RPC I, 5440

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 5440
Province Uncertain
Region Uncertain
City Uncertain
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS
Edition Ti(berius) Caesar Divi Aug(usti) f(ilius) Augustus
Translation Tiberius Caesar, son of the divine Augustus, Augustus
Obverse design bare head of Tiberius, left
Reverse inscription PONTIF MAX
Edition Pontif(ex) Max(imus)
Translation High Priest
Reverse design in an oak wreath
Metal copper
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 10.39 g
Axis 12
Reference RIC I (2nd ed.) 94; BSFN 1988/3, 326
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).tib.94
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note This unique as was published for the first time by Mowat, RN 1911, pp. 429-30, no. 18, pl. VIII,15. He proposed to attribute it to a provincial mint in Cappadocia or Cilicia. Grant, RAI, p. 42, links it to 5441, on stylistic grounds, and attributed it to a Balkan mint, supposing that it was struck for the decennium of Tiberius. Its authenticity is not certain.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P BNC 172 = RAI pl. I, 7