RPC I, 660


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Coin type
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Volume	I
Number	660
Province	Sicily
Region	Sicily
City	Agrigentum
Reign	Augustus
Person (obv.)	Augustus
Magistrate	Lucius Clodius Rufus (proconsul) ; Sextus Rufus (duovir) ; Salassus (convenor of the comitium)
Dating	after 2 BC
Obverse inscription	AVGVSTO P P AGRIGE(N)TI(N)
Edition	Augusto p(atri) p(atriae) Agrigentin(orum)
Translation	to Augustus, father of the fatherland, of the Agrigentines
Obverse design	head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription	SALASSO COMITIALE SEX RVFO IIVIR, L CLODIO RVFO PROCOS
Edition	Salasso comitiale Sex(to) Rufo IIvir(o) L(ucio) Clodio Rufo proco(n)s(ule)
Translation	(under) Salassus, convenor of the comitium; Sextus Rufus, duovir; (and) Lucius Clodius Rufus, proconsul
Reverse design	plough
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	23 mm
Average weight	9.29 g
Axis	9, 12
Reference	Holm 735, BMC 160, Gabrici 158, FITA 196
Specimens	41 (23 in the core collections)
Note	Friedlander thought (ZfN, 1877, 337) that the plough had a bird sitting on it, and therefore that it was a countermark of Centuripae, but the bird and the attribution seem very unlikely. See Martini, Sicilia nos 140-74. One of the duoviri (Sextus Rufus) is now known as a duumvir from a Greek inscription from the gymnasium at Agrigento (R.J.A. Wilson, ‘Archaeology in Sicily 1988-95’, Archaeological Reports for 1995-1996 (1996), p. 87). R.J.A. Wilson advises that comitialis is probably a title (‘convenor of the comitium’) rather than a name (see his Sicily under the Roman Empire (1990), p. 42 caption with fig. 32c.
Correction	Corrected coin-type (post publication)

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Specimens of this coin type

#	Specimen	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	L	BMC 160	23	10.46			Show
2	2	L	BMC 161	23	8.99		Rev.: GIC 290 (boar r.?)	Show
3	3	L	BMC 162	23	8.46		Rev.: GIC 290 (boar r.?)	Show
4	4	L	BMC 163	23	8.42		Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
5	5	L	BMC 164	23	7.14			Show
6	6	NY: 1944.100.8283	SNG 1150	23	8.09	12	Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
7	7	NY: 1953.171.503		23	11.30	12	Obv.: GIC 483 (?, object or monogram)	Show
8	8	NY: Holzer		23	7.23		Rev.: GIC 290 (boar r.?)	Show
9	9	NY: Holzer		23	8.22		Rev.: GIC 290 (boar r.?)	Show
10	10	NY: Holzer		23	12.71		Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
11	11	NY: Holzer		23	7.52		Rev.: GIC 290 (boar r.?)	Show
12	12	B: I-B		23				Show
13	13	B: I-B		23				Show
14	14	B: I-B		23				Show
15	15	B: Löbb.		23			Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
16	16	B: 7395		23	10.41			Show
17	17	P: 163		23	8.84			Show
18	18	Mu: 206		23				Show
19	19	Mu: 207		23			Rev.: GIC 290 (boar r.?)	Show
20	20	Mu: 208		23				Show
21	21	Mu: 209		23				Show
22	22	C: 94/1948		23			Obv.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
23	23	C: 93/1948		23	11.30		Rev.: GIC 290 (boar r.?)	Show
24	24		Palermo = Gabrici 158	23				Show
25	25		Calciati 150	23	8.98			Show
26	26		Calciati 150	23	10.20		Obv.: GIC 290 (boar r.?)	Show
27	27		Calciati 150	23	7.95		Obv.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
28	28	N: 4066		23				Show
29	29	N: S 7477		23				Show
30	30	Bern: R4277		23	9.09			Show
31	31		JSW	23	9.42			Show
32	32		Hess Nov. 1979, no. 66	23	9.02			Show
33	33	Verona			8.61	12		Show
34	34		P. Villemur coll. = CNG MBS 78, 14 May 2008, lot 1155 (ex Finarte 26 Nov. 1996, lot 702)	23	8.00	12	Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
35	35 ✸		CNG MBS 78, 14 May 2008, lot 1154	23.5	8.12	12	Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
36	36		Naumann 50, 5 Feb. 2017, lot 290	22	12.54			Show
37	37		Naumann 100, F. Jarman coll., 7 Mar. 2021, lot 1088	22	11.31			Show
38	38		Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions 236, 24 Sep. 2022, lot 719	24	10.11		Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
39	39		Roma Numismatics -the Anders collection, 8 Sep. 2022, lot 935	21	8.80	9	Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
40	40		CNG MBS 78, 14 May 2008, lot 1156	23	8.00	12	Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show
41	41		London Ancient Coins 92, 1 June 2025, lot 139	24	10.11		Rev.: GIC 426 (plough?)	Show