RPC II, 687


Image of specimen #8

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/687 json ttl rdf xml epidoc
Volume	II
Number	687
Province	Bithynia-Pontus
Region	Bithynia
City	Prusias ad Hypium
Reign	Domitian
Person (obv.)	Domitian (Augustus)
Issue	Coins without ethics but probably Prusias. Group C: ΚΑΠΕΤΩΛΙΟΝ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΝ
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ
Edition	Αὐτ(οκράτωρ) Δομιτιανὸς Καῖσαρ Σεβ(αστὸς) Γερμ(ανικός)
Translation	Emperor Domitian Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design	laureate head of Domitian, right
Reverse inscription	ΚΑΠΕΤΩΛΙΟΝ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΝ
Edition	Καπετώλιον Σεβαστόν
Translation	for the Capitolian Augustus
Reverse design	temple with four columns
Metal	brass
Average diameter	26 mm
Average weight	9.61 g
Axis	5, 12
Reference	GRMK p. 20, no. 5
Specimens	12 (7 in the core collections)
Note	4-7 were found at Üskübü, the ancient site of Prusias ad Hypium (M. Price, NC 1967, p. 37, nos 1-3 and 5, with pl. III.1-3 and 5). The attribution to Prusias ad Hypium rests on the find-spot of so many specimens. Bosch (pp. 187-8), while thinking that the coin was an issue of the Koinon, suggested that the coin was minted in mid-86, when Domitian celebrated the first Capitoline festival. Price interpreted the legend as being in the masculine accusative and consisting of epithets of Zeus, but it would seem odd to omit the deity's name. He was reluctant to treat the legend as being neuter nominative, since he thought a reference to the restoration of the Capitoline temple at Rome at the faraway city of Prusias ad Hypium was unlikely. But there seems no obvious reason why Prusias ad Hypium should not have had its own Kapetolion sebaston, in imitation of that at Rome, a possibility made more probable by the likely representation of the same temple on a coin of Vespasian (RPC II, 669). GIC 608 also occurs on the Γερμανία and Γετική coins (RPC II, 685-6).

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Specimens of this coin type

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1	NY: 1944.100.42395		24	10.79	12		Show
2	2	B: 391/1925						Show
3	3	B: Löbb.	GRMK p. 20, no. 5	27	10.71			Show
4	4	L: 1966,1203.1		27	10.09		Obv.: GIC 608 (monogram {ΑΥΤΚ}) ; qualitative metal analysis: brass	Show
5	5	L: 1967,0501.1		27	11.01		Obv.: GIC 608 (monogram {ΑΥΤΚ})	Show
6	6	L: 1967,0501.2		27	9.03		Obv.: GIC 608 (monogram {ΑΥΤΚ}) Rev.: GIC 630 (monogram {ΠΡΟΥ} on blank coins)	Show
7	7	L: 1967,0501.4		27	9.34		Obv.: GIC 217 (empress, head r.); GIC 608 (monogram {ΑΥΤΚ}) Rev.: GIC 630 (monogram {ΠΡΟΥ} on blank coins) ; GIC 217 on top of GIC 608	Show
8	8 ✸		A. Tricarico coll.	25.4	7.37	5		Show
9	9		Kölner Münzkabinett EA 3, 25 June 2017, lot 240 = Kölner Münzkabinett 106, 11 March 2017, lot 371 = Münzen & Medaillen, 15, part of lot 455 (Righetti Coll.)		10.08		Obv.: GIC 608 (monogram {ΑΥΤΚ}) Rev.: GIC 630 (monogram {ΠΡΟΥ} on blank coins)	Show
10	10		CGT coll. ex Naville Auction 20, 7 Feb. 2016, lot 258	27	8.68		Obv.: GIC 217 (empress, head r.) Rev.: GIC 630 (monogram {ΠΡΟΥ} on blank coins) ; GIC 217 on top of GIC 608. Attribution to type not certain.	Show
11	11		CGT coll.	26	9.57		Obv.: GIC 618 (ΚΑ in monogram) Rev.: GIC 630 (monogram {ΠΡΟΥ} on blank coins) ; Attribution to type not certain.	Show
12	12		CGT coll.	26	9.07		Obv.: GIC 217 (empress, head r.); GIC 608 (monogram {ΑΥΤΚ}) Rev.: GIC 630 (monogram {ΠΡΟΥ} on blank coins) ; Attribution to type not certain.	Show