RPC II, 850

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 850
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Ephesus
Region Ionia
City Ephesus
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Vespasian (Augustus)
Issue 'Provincial' issue: star, COS IIII
Dating AD 72
Obverse inscription IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS IIII TR P P P
Edition Imperator Caesar Vespasianus Augustus Consul IIII Tribunicia Potestate Pater Patriae Imp(erator) Caesar Vespas(ianus) Aug(ustus) Co(n)s(ul) IIII Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) P(ater) P(atriae)
Translation Emperor Caesar Vespasian Augustus, consul for the fourth time, with tribunician power, father of the fatherland
Obverse design laureate head of Vespasian, right
Reverse inscription CONCORDIA AVG
Edition Concordia Augusti Concordia Aug(usti)
Translation Augustan Concord
Reverse design Ceres seated, left, holding corn-ears and poppy, and cornucopia; below, star
Metal silver
Average diameter 16 mm
Average weight 3.26 g
Axis 1, 6
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).ves.1453
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
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# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1991.12.1 Annual Report of the American Numismatic Society 1991, p. 13, fig. 14
2 2     Madrid XVI/121–13
3 3     Madrid XVI/121–36
4 4     Gorny & Mosch EA 251, 15 Oct. 2017, lot 4892
5 5     ✸ NAC 125, 23 June 2021, lot 557 (ex Gorny & Mosch 129, 2003, lot 2237)