RPC II, 1005

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 1005
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Vespasian (Augustus)
Magistrate Agron Eusebes (strategos) ; Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Ιtalicus (proconsul) ; Iulia
Dating before AD 79
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΟΥΕϹΠΑϹΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Οὐεσπασιανὸς Σεβαστός Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Οὐεσπασιανὸς Σεβαστός
Translation Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Vespasian, right
Reverse inscription ΑΝΘΥ ΙΤΑΛΙΚΩ ΕΠΙ ΙΟΥΛΙΑϹ ϹΤΡΑ ΑΓΡΩΝ ΕΥϹΕΒΗϹ ΖΜΥΡ
Edition ἀνθυπάτῳ Ἰταλικῷ ἐπὶ Ἰουλίας στρατηγός Ἄγρων Εὐσεβής Ζμυρναίων ἀνθυ(πάτῳ) Ἰταλικῷ ἐπὶ Ἰουλίας στρα(τηγός) Ἄγρων Εὐσεβής Ζμυρ(ναίων)
Translation (under) proconsul Italicus, under Julia, strategos Agron Eusebes, of the Smyrnaeans
Reverse design Cybele seated, left, holding patera and resting arm on tympanum; at feet, lion
Metal brass
Average diameter 30 mm
Average weight 15.60 g
Axis 11
Reference Klose XXXV C; Stumpf 332
Specimens 22 (2 in the core collections)
Note 5 obv. dies.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: I-B
2 2     ✸ L: 1979,0101.1776
3 3 –20     see Klose
21 21     Lindgren A562B
22 22     A. Tricarico coll. (ex Leu Web Auction 4, 24 June 2018, lot 496)