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Image of specimen #53 |
URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/1973 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | II |
Number | 1973 |
Province | Syria |
Region | Syria |
City | Antioch |
Reign | Vespasian |
Person (obv.) | Vespasian (Augustus) |
Issue | Tetradrachms: group 8, year 4 |
Dating | AD 71/2 |
Obverse inscription | ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡ ΟΥΕϹ-ΠΑϹΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ |
Edition | Αὐτοκράτωρ Οὐεσπασιανὸς Καῖσαρ Σεβαστός |
Translation | Emperor Vespasian Caesar Augustus |
Obverse design | laureate head of Vespasian, l |
Reverse inscription | ΕΤΟΥϹ ΝΕΟΥ ΙΕΡΟΥ Δ |
Edition | ἔτους νέου ἱεροῦ δʹ |
Translation | of the new holy year 4 |
Reverse design | eagle, left, standing on garlanded altar, head right, caduceus in beak, palm left |
Metal | silver |
Average diameter | 25 mm |
Average weight | 14.41 g |
Axis | 1, 12 |
Reference | Wruck 88, McAlee 39 |
Specimens | 53 (11 in the core collections) |
Die-links | 1, 3, 12, 15–16, 22–4, 28, 36, 42, 48: same obv. die. 2, 7–8, 13, 17, 21, 25–7, 29–30, 39, 45–6: same obv. die. 4–5, 9, 14, 18–19, 31, 35, 37–8, 41, 43, 47, 49: same obv. die. 6, 20, 33–4, 40, 44: same obv. die. |
Note | 49 coins, 5 obv. dies |