RPC I, 5441

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 5441
Province Uncertain
Region Uncertain
City Uncertain
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription
Obverse design bare head of Tiberius, left, in a laurel wreath
Reverse inscription TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F IMP VIII, TRIB POT XXXVIII PON MAX
Edition Tiberius Caesar Divi Augusti filius Imperator VIII Tribunicia Potestate XXXVIII Pontifex Maximus Ti(berius) Caesar Divi Aug(usti) f(ilius) Imp(erator) VIII Trib(unicia) Pot(estate) XXXVIII Pon(tifex) Max(imus)
Translation Tiberius Caesar, son of the divine Augustus, imperator for the eighth time, with tribunician power for the 38th time, chief priest
Reverse design around and in three lines in field
Metal copper
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 16.16 g
Axis 12
Reference RIC I (2nd ed.) 95; BSFN 1988/3, 327
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).tib.95
Specimens 3 (3 in the core collections)
Note This series of asses is dated to the very end of the reign of Tiberius, in AD36/7. The P specimen was first published by Mowat, RN 1911, p. 430, no. 19, pl. VIII, 16, who attributed it to a Cappadocian or a Cilician mint as5440. Grant, RAI, p. 68, linked it to the issue attributed to Gallia Comata (537-8), supposing that it celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Augustus's birth.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P BNC 173 = RAI, pl. II, 3: obv.
2 2     B: Sandes RAI, pl. II, 4: rev.
3 3     ✸ G Hunter 51, p. 10 = RIM, pl. IX, 1 = SNG 4984