RPC I, 956


Image of specimen #2

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/956 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	I
Number	956
Province	Cyrenaica and Crete
Region	Crete
City	Hierapytna
Reign	Tiberius
Person (obv.)	Tiberius (Augustus)
Person (rev.)	Augustus (Divus)
Magistrate	Cornelius Lupus (proconsul)
Obverse inscription	ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ Ε ΚΟΡ ΛΥ
Edition	Τιβέριος Καῖσαρ Σεβαστὸς ἐ(πὶ) Κορ(νηλίου) Λύ(που)
Translation	Tiberius Caesar Augustus, under Cornelius Lupus
Obverse design	laureate head of Tiberius, right
Reverse inscription	ΘΕΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ ΚΡΗΤΕϹ ΙΕΡΑ
Edition	Θεὸς Σεβαστὸς Κρῆτες Ἱερα(πυτνίων)
Translation	divine Augustus, the Cretans, of the Hierapytnians
Reverse design	radiate head of Divus Augustus, left
Metal	silver
Average weight	2.37 g
Axis	12
Reference	Sv 47
Specimens	3 (3 in the core collections)

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	B: 28686	Sv, pl. XVIII, 4	2.67	12		Show
2	2 ✸	L: 1927,0116.425	Seager	2.25	12		Show
3	3	V: GR 14435		2.20	12	The V specimen was attributed by Svoronos to Cydonia (Sv 116) with the qualification that it could have been struck at Gortyn or Eleutherna. An attribution to Hierapytna seems more likely as the legends are in the nominative (not the dative) case and the die axis is at twelve (not six) o'clock.	Show