RPC II, 1953

 

Image of specimen #11

 

Coin type
Volume II
Number 1953
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Antioch
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Vespasian (Augustus)
Issue Tetradrachms: group 4, year 1
Dating AD 69
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΟΥΕϹΠΑϹΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκράτωρ Οὐεσπασιανὸς Καῖσαρ Σεβαστός Αὐτοκρά(τωρ) Οὐεσπασιανὸς Καῖσαρ Σεβαστός
Translation Emperor Vespasian Caesar Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Vespasian, right
Reverse inscription ΕΤΟΥϹ ΝΕΟΥ ΙΕΡΟΥ Α
Edition ἔτους νέου ἱεροῦ αʹ ἔτους νέου ἱεροῦ αʹ
Translation of the new sacred year 1
Reverse design eagle with wreath in beak standing left, on club.; in left field, palm branch
Metal silver
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 14.21 g
Axis 12
Reference Wruck 73, McAlee 20
Specimens 25 (6 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 6, 8–12, 14–16, 19, 22: same obv. die as 1952/1–4. 2, 20: same obv. die. 3–4, 17, 21: same obv. die. 7, 18: same obv. die as 1954/21, 38.
Note 24 coins, 5 obv. dies, 1 shared with 1952, 1 with 1954 (single obv. die: 23)
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1935,0803.3
2 2     L: G1030
3 3     C SNG 5872
4 4     B: a. B.
5 5     B: I-B
6 6     NY: 1944.100.61947
7 7     Oslo: UMK
8 8     J-SBF Cafarnao III, 776
9 9     Tiberias hoard 18
10 10     Bathlehem hoard II (1)
11 11     ✸ Auctiones AG Basel 8, 1978, lot 487 = UBS 61, 14 Sept. 2004, lot 4522 = CNG Triton XXII, 8 Jan. 2019, lot 574 (ex M. Prieur coll.)
12 12     Rauch 7, 1971, lot 153a
13 13     McAlee coll. = ex Hirsch 160, 1988, lot 414
14 14     Schøyen VES 130
15 15     Schøyen VES 216
16 16     Schøyen VES 217
17 17     Schøyen VES 218
18 18     Schøyen VES 286 = ex MM FPL 441, Feb. 1982, lot 29
19 19     Schøyen VES 306 = ex Münchener Münzhandlung K. Kress 187, 1984, lot 1934
20 20     Schøyen VES 446
21 21     Schøyen VES 452
22 22     Schøyen VES 578
23 23     Prieur coll. = McAlee 21 = CNG EA 437, 6 Feb. 2019, lot 336 (ex Hirsch 170, 22 May 1991, lot 1136)
24 24     Trade Baldwin 1977
25 25     A. Tricarico coll. (ex Gorny and Mosch 196, 7-9 Mar. 2011, lot 2257; Nummus et Ars 86, 2014, lot 323)