RPC I, 5450

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 5450
Province Uncertain
Region Uncertain
City Uncertain
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription TI [CAESA]R DIVI AVG F AVGVST IMP VII
Edition 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 [---]
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.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 937