RPC I, 643

 

Image of specimen #10

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 643
Province Sicily
Region Sicily
City Panormus
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Livia (Augusta)
Issue Tiberius (?) and Livia(?)
Obverse inscription PANORMITANORVM
Edition Panormitanorum
Translation of the Panormitans
Obverse design bare head of Tiberius, right
Reverse inscription AVGVS
Edition Augus(tus)
Translation Augustus
Reverse design veiled female head of Livia, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 9.51 g
Axis 6, 12
Reference Holm 743, Gabrici 332, BMC 43, Grant APT no. 13 var.
Specimens 13 (3 in the core collections)
Note See S. Frey-Kupper, ‘Germanicus und Drusus auf einer Münze von Panormos’, Schweizer Münzblätter 164 (1991), pp. 90-95, on RPC I, 5452 and its dating to AD 14-19. She interprets this coins as a half denomination corresponding to RPC 642-3, which can therefore be safely identified as Tiberius and Livia. -- See Martini, Sicilia nos. 308-25, with some countermarks.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 43
2 2     Mu: 824
3 3     Cop SNG 561
4 4     Palermo Gabrici 332
5 5     N: 4756
6 6     N: 4757
7 7     Calciati 38
8 8     Calciati 38
9 9     Evelpidis 571
10 10     ✸ CGT coll. = Naville Numismatic 16, 12 July 2015, lot 106
11 11     CGT coll. = Naville Numismatics 15, 7 June 2015, lot 108
12 12     CGT coll.
13 13     CGT coll.