RPC II, 831

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 831
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Ephesus
Region Ionia
City Ephesus
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Vespasian (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Titus (Caesar) ; Domitian (Caesar)
Issue 'Provincial' issue: E{PHE}, COS III
Dating AD 71
Obverse inscription IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS III TR P P P
Edition Imp(erator) Caesar Vespas(ianus) Aug(ustus) Co(n)s(ul) III Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) P(ater) P(atriae)
Translation Emperor Caesar Vespasian, Augustus, consul for the third time, with tribunician power, father of the fatherland
Obverse design laureate head of Vespasian, right
Reverse inscription LIBERI IMP AVG VESPAS
Edition Liberi Imp(eratoris) Aug(usti) Vespas(iani)
Translation the children of Emperor Augustus Vespasian
Reverse design confronted bare heads of Titus and Domitian; between, EPHE
Metal silver
Average diameter 16 mm
Average weight 3.19 g
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference BMCRE 455; RIC 1429
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).ves.1429
Specimens 24 (7 in the core collections)
Die-links 13: same obv. die as 835/8.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMCRE 455, pl. 16, 7
2 2     NY: 1944.100.39969 Santamaria 16, 24 Jan. 1938, lot 397
3 3     O: Lawrence
4 4     P: 3941
5 5     P: Ephesos 636
6 6     V: RÖ 6620
7 7     B: Rauch
8 8     Madrid XVI/121–53
9 9     Amsterdam: 2923
10 10     Amsterdam: 4935 (Six)
11 11     Turin
12 12     Hess, 18 Dec. 1933, lot 457
13 13     Münzhandlung Basel 8, 23 Mar. 1937, lot 62 = Cahn, 3 Nov. 1913, lot 368 = Glendining, 16 Nov. 1950 (Hall), lot 1206
14 14     Egger 39, 15 Jan. 1912, lot 802
15 15     Münzhandlung Basel 3, 5 Mar. 1935, lot 238
16 16     Naville 2, 12 June 1922, lot 480 ( = Vauthier-Collignon)
17 17     Merzbacher, 1910, lot 1508
18 18     A. Tricarico coll. (ex Künker 257, 10 Oct. 2014, lot 8925)
19 19     Lanz 162, 6 June 2016, lot 241
20 20     Rauch 99, 8 Dec. 2015, lot 122 (ex Helios 1, 2008, lot 440)
21 21     Markov The New York Sale XLII, 9 Jan. 2018, lot 447
22 22     Pecunem Gitbud & Naumann 24, 2 Nov. 2014, lot 392 = V. L. Nummus Online Auction 16, 10-11 Apr. 2021, lot 552
23 23     ✸ NAC 125, 23 June 2021, lot 551 (ex Manhattan sale 1, 2010, lot 215)
24 24     Emporium Hamburg 104, 20 Nov. 2023, lot 331