RPC I, 660

 

Image of specimen #35

 

Coin type
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)

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 160
2 2     L BMC 161
3 3     L BMC 162
4 4     L BMC 163
5 5     L BMC 164
6 6     NY: 1944.100.8283 SNG 1150
7 7     NY: 1953.171.503
8 8     NY: Holzer
9 9     NY: Holzer
10 10     NY: Holzer
11 11     NY: Holzer
12 12     B: I-B
13 13     B: I-B
14 14     B: I-B
15 15     B: Löbb.
16 16     B: 7395
17 17     P: 163
18 18     Mu: 206
19 19     Mu: 207
20 20     Mu: 208
21 21     Mu: 209
22 22     C: 94/1948
23 23     C: 93/1948
24 24     Palermo = Gabrici 158
25 25     Calciati 150
26 26     Calciati 150
27 27     Calciati 150
28 28     N: 4066
29 29     N: S 7477
30 30     Bern: R4277
31 31     JSW
32 32     Hess Nov. 1979, no. 66
33 33     Verona
34 34     P. Villemur coll. = CNG MBS 78, 14 May 2008, lot 1155 (ex Finarte 26 Nov. 1996, lot 702)
35 35     ✸ CNG MBS 78, 14 May 2008, lot 1154
36 36     Naumann 50, 5 Feb. 2017, lot 290
37 37     Naumann 100, F. Jarman coll., 7 Mar. 2021, lot 1088
38 38     Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions 236, 24 Sep. 2022, lot 719
39 39     Roma Numismatics -the Anders collection, 8 Sep. 2022, lot 935
40 40     CNG MBS 78, 14 May 2008, lot 1156
41 41     London Ancient Coins 92, 1 June 2025, lot 139