RPC I, 947A

 

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 947A
Province Cyrenaica and Crete
Region Cyrenaica
City Cyrenaica
Reign Tiberius
Person (rev.) Germanicus ; Tiberius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΔΡΟΥΣΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΥ ΥΙΟΣ
Edition Δροῦσος Καῖσαρ Αὐγούστου υἱός Δροῦσος Καῖσαρ Αὐγούστου υἱός
Translation Drusus Caesar, son of Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Drusus, right
Reverse inscription ΤΙΒ ΓΕΡ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΕΣ
Edition Τιβέριος Γερμανικὸς Καίσαρες Τιβ(έριος) Γερ(μανικὸς) Καίσαρες
Translation Tiberius (and) Germanicus Caesars
Reverse design bare heads of the twins Tiberius (on left) and Germanicus (on right) face to face
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 4.80 g
Axis 9
Reference Asolati 170
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note This denomination completes the emission where a dupondius and an as were already known: RPC I, 946-7.
Addition Additional coin-type (post publication)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Cyrene M. Asolati, ‘A proposito di alcune questioni di numismatica cirenaica’, NAC XXXVIII (2009), pp. 179–203 (more part. pp. 187–9 and Tav. II, p. 198, fig. 14 = Id., Nummi Aenei Cyrenaici. Struttura e cronologia della monetazione bronzea cirenaica di età greca e romana [325 A.C. – 180 D.C.], Roma, 2011, p. 103, no. 170 and Tav. P. 146