RPC I, 869

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 869
Province Mauretania
Region Africa
City Babba
Reign Augustus
Magistrate Gaius Mar(c?)ius Ambatus (praefectus for the second time) ; Aulus Te— Tiro (aedile) ; Vac— Ax— (aedile)
Dating c. 19 BC (?)
Obverse inscription AMBATVS PRAEF ITER IVLIA CAMP
Obverse design head of Bacchus, right
Reverse inscription VAC AX A TE TIRO AED
Reverse design female head (Ceres?), right: in field, ear of grain, left and right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Axis 1, 2, 6, 12
Reference FITA 182–4, RN 1984, 88–94, pl. VIII, Alexandropoulos 177
Specimens 8 (1 in the core collections)
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1886/999
2 2     Cop SNG 752 = FITA, pl. VI, 14
3 3     Formerly coll. de Guadán = NUMISMA 19, 1969, 9
4 4     J. Hirsch 15/1906, lot 39
5 5     Madrid: 2015.112.203
6 6     CNG EA 318, 15 Jan. 2014, lot 500
7 7     CNG EA 359, 9 Sept. 2015, lot 321
8 8     Roma Numismatics EA 104, 15 Dec. 2022, lot 41
9 9     ✸ Jesús Vico S.A. 165, Cores coll., 23 Feb. 2023, lot 2253