RPC I, 648


Image of specimen #15

Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	648
Province	Sicily
Region	Sicily
City	Segesta
Reign	Roman Republic
Magistrate	Gaius Iulius Dionysius (duovir) ; Marcus Vipsanius Athenaeus (duovir)
Obverse inscription	M VIPSANIO ATHENAEO
Edition	M(arco) Vipsanio Athenaeo
Translation	(under) Marcus Vipsanius Athenaeus
Obverse design	jugate heads of Dioscuri, right; above stars
Reverse inscription	C IVLIO DIONYSIO IIVIRIS EX D D
Edition	C(aio) Iulio Dionysio IIviris ex d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)
Translation	(and under) Gaius Iulius Dionysius, duovirs, by decree of the decurions
Reverse design	dolphin, right, and aplustre
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	20 mm
Average weight	7.42 g
Axis	1, 3, 6
Reference	Holm 757, Gabrici (Tyndaris) 58, FITA 191, Cop 955, P. Villemur, De quelques émissions coloniales romaines en Sicile: retour à Tyndaris, FIDES.Contributions...in Honor of Richard B. Witschonke (New York, 2015), Emission 1, pp. 436–7 and Pl. I,
Specimens	15 (6 in the core collections)
Note	The attribution to Segesta is doubted by A. Cutroni Tusa because of the lack of evidence for the cult of the Dioscuri at Segesta (well known at Tyndaris): see her ‘La documentazione numismatica’ in L’impiego dei termini Apoikia e Katoikia nell’ambito della Sicilia romana in Kokalos XLI (1995), pp. 365-6. An attribution to Tyndaris is vindicated with good arguments by P. Villemur, loc.cit.
Correction	Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	P: 1980/228		20	6.23	3	rev. C IVLIO DIO[ ]X D D	Show
2	2	B: I-B		20	6.62		rev. C IVLIO D[ ]IRIS EX D D	Show
3	3	B: I-B		20	7.00		rev. C IVLIO DIONY[	Show
4	4	B: I-B		20			rev. illegible	Show
5	5	Cop	SNG 955	20	7.88		rev. ]ONYSIO[	Show
6	6		Calciati 30 = Tyndaris	20	6.68		rev. illeg.	Show
7	7		Palermo = Gabrici 58 = Tyndaris	20	7.09		rev. ]ONYSIO IIVIRIS EX D D	Show
8	8		Palermo = Gabrici 59 = Tyndaris	20	10.59			Show
9	9		Palermo = Gabrici 60 = Tyndaris	20	8.95			Show
10	10		Palermo = Gabrici 61 = Tyndaris	20	7.17			Show
11	11		Palermo = Gabrici 62 = Tyndaris	20	5.72			Show
12	12	NY: 1944.100.10121	SNG 608	20	6.87	3		Show
13	13		Ratto, Monete Greche. Raccolte di un dotto Numismatico straniero (Froehner), 26 Apr. 1909, lot 1265	20			rev. C IVLIO DIONYSIO	Show
14	14		CGT coll. = Naville Numismatics 16, 12 July 2015, lot 107	19.5	9.66	6		Show
15	15 ✸		Bertolami EA 245, 10-12 Dec. 2022, lot 395	21	6.04	1		Show