Ti(berius) Caesar Divi Aug(usti) f(ilius) August(us) Imp(erator) VII
Translation
Tiberius Caesar, son of the divine Augustus, Augustus, Emperor for the seventh time
Obverse design
bare head, right
Reverse inscription
[ ] (?)
Edition
[---]
Translation
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Reverse design
helmeted head, right (?)
Metal
copper-based alloy
Average diameter
29 mm
Average weight
27.59 g
Axis
12
Specimens
1 (1 in the core collections)
Note
This sestertius is in the P trays, among the Roman sestertii, but it is alien to the production of Rome. Its style might suggest an African origin(compare, e.g., the Tiberian coinage of Colonia lulia Pia Paterna: 762-70); the rev. type, a helmeted head(?), occurs on the coinage of Cercina(802). Therefore a Byzacenian origin is suggested here.
