RPC I, 866

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 866
Province Mauretania
Region Africa
City Zilil
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Obverse inscription CAESAR DIVI F CONST
Edition Caesar Divi f(ilius) Const(antia)
Translation Caesar, son of the divine, Constantia
Obverse design bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription N (or AN?)LAR POM[ ] D D
Edition N(—) Lar()— Pom(—) [---] d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)
Translation N— Lar— Pom[---], by decree of the decurions
Reverse design female diademed head, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average weight 8.53 g
Reference Alexandropoulos 166
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Note On Zilil, see now G. Depeyrot, Zilil I. Colonia Iulia Constantia Zilil, Étude du numéraire, (Rome, 1999). -- A. Akerraz, M. Amandry, G. Depeyrot, N El Khatib-Boujibar, A. Hesnard, A. Kermorvant, M. Lenoir and G. Monthel, ‘Dchar Jdid (Zilil): les découvertes monétaires. II,’ BSFN 1991/4, pp. 65-69, discuss these coins, and publish a third specimen (?) of 866.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Dchar Jdid 79.1776 = Depeyrot, op. cit., no. 83
2 2     Dchar Jdid 1985.5.376 = BSFN 1989, p. 513, no. 1 = Depeyrot, op. cit., no. 85