RPC I, 800

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 800
Province Africa Proconsularis
Region Africa
City Achulla
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus ; Gaius (Caesar) ; Lucius (Caesar)
Person (rev.) Lucius Volusius Saturninus (proconsul)
Magistrate Lucius Volusius Saturninus (proconsul)
Dating 7/6 BC
Obverse inscription AVG PONT MAX, C L (in field under Augustus's head)
Edition Aug(ustus) Pont(ifex) Max(imus) C(aius) L(ucius)
Translation Augustus, chief priest, Gaius (and) Lucius
Obverse design bare head of Augustus, left; in front, bare head of Gaius, r; behind, bare head of Lucius, left
Reverse inscription L VOLVSIVS SATVR ACHVL
Edition L(ucius) Volusius Satur(ninus) Achul(la)
Translation Lucius Volusius Saturninus, Achulla
Reverse design bare head of Saturninus, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Average weight 13.72 g
Axis 3, 6, 9, 11, 12
Reference Mu 9, Supp. 41, FITA 230 (3), Alexandropoulos 60
Specimens 11 (3 in the core collections)
Note See now M. Amandry ‘Notes de Numismatique Africaine, VI. 8.Achulla’, RN 1992, pp. 46-53.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1988,0106.1
2 2     P: 101
3 3     Cop Mu Supp., pl. II, fig. = SNG 50
4 4     ✸ Auctiones 15, P. Bastien coll., 1985, lot 400 = CNG Triton XI, P. Villemur coll., 8 Jan. 2008, lot 554 = Künker 396, 13 Nov. 2023, lot 1014
5 5     JSW = CNG EA 191, 9 July 2008, lot 164
6 6     J. Malter XXXIV, 13/XII/1986, 397,
7 7     Tkalec Feb. 2008, 29 Feb. 2008, lot 390
8 8     Roma Numismatics EA 38, 29 July 2017, lot 328
9 9     Roma Numismatics EA 58, 20 June 2019, lot 883 (ex CNG EA 436, 23 Jan. 2019, lot 391)
10 10     Missere 1466
11 11     Boston: 1987.226