RPC II, 1926

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 1926
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Antioch
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Vespasian (Augustus)
Issue Aurei and denarii: group 4
Dating AD 72
Obverse inscription IMP VESPAS AVG P M TRI P P P COS IIII
Edition Imperator Vespasianus Augustus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Pater Patriae Consul IIII Imp(erator) Vespas(ianus) Aug(ustus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tri(bunicia) P(otestate) P(ater) P(atriae) Co(n)s(ul) IIII
Translation Emperor Vespasian, Augustus, chief priest, with tribunician power, father of the fatherland, consul for the fourth time
Obverse design laureate and draped bust of Vespasian, left, with left shoulder thrust forward
Reverse inscription VIRTVS AVGVSTI
Edition Virtus Augusti Virtus Augusti
Translation Virtue of the Augustus
Reverse design Virtus standing, right, left foot on shield, holding sceptre and parazonium
Metal gold
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.44 g
Axis 12
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).ves.1552
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1: same obv. die as 1923/1, 1924/6–7, 1925/1. 2–3: same obv. die as 1922/1, 1925/2–3.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ NY: 1944.100.39965
2 2     Oslo Myntgalleri AS 28, Schøyen coll., 6 May 2022, lot 322 (ex Bank Leu and Spink, Asta Ceresio 2, 26 Sep. 1988, lot 185)
3 3     Triton XIV, 3 Jan. 2011, lot 675 (= R. McAlee, The Coins of Roman Antioch, Supplement No. 2 (2020), p. 13, Fig. 18A, E)