RPC I, 648

 

Image of specimen #15

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 648
Province Sicily
Region Sicily
City Segesta
Reign Roman Republic
Magistrate Gaius Iulius Dionysius (duovir) ; Marcus Vipsanus Athenaeus (duovir)
Obverse inscription M VIPSANO ATHENAEO[
Obverse design jugate heads of Dioscuri, right; above stars
Reverse inscription C IVLIO DIONYSIO IIVIRIS EX D D
Reverse design dolphin, right, and aplustre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
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)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1980/228
2 2     B: I-B
3 3     B: I-B
4 4     B: I-B
5 5     Cop SNG 955
6 6     Calciati 30 = Tyndaris
7 7     Palermo = Gabrici 58 = Tyndaris
8 8     Palermo = Gabrici 59 = Tyndaris
9 9     Palermo = Gabrici 60 = Tyndaris
10 10     Palermo = Gabrici 61 = Tyndaris
11 11     Palermo = Gabrici 62 = Tyndaris
12 12     NY: 1944.100.10121 SNG 608
13 13     Ratto, Monete Greche. Raccolte di un dotto Numismatico straniero (Froehner), 26 Apr. 1909, lot 1265
14 14     CGT coll. = Naville Numismatics 16, 12 July 2015, lot 107
15 15     ✸ Bertolami EA 245, 10-12 Dec. 2022, lot 395