RPC VIII, — (unassigned; ID 19468)

 

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Coin type
Volume VIII
Number — (unassigned; ID 19468)
Province Epirus
Region Epirus
City Nicopolis
Reign Philip I
Person (obv.) Philip I (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΜΑ ΙΟΥ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟϹ ϹΕΒΑ
Nominative Imperator Marcus Iulius Philippus Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Philip I, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ΙΕΡΑϹ ΝΕΙΚΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ
Reverse design Tyche (or Aktia?) seated left, on rock; in front, amphora; beneath, three small river gods
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Axis 8, 9
Reference Oikonomidou 21–2; Calomino 489
Specimens 8 (6 in the core collections)
Note Coins https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/336320, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/336319, https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/100498, and https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/335825 have a very similar flan shape and the obverse looks tooled on all specimens.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
— —     ✸ P: 253A Oikonomidou 22α
— —     B: 18272728, Fox
— —     B: 18272727, Löbb. Oikonomidou 21α
— —     Cop SNG 83 = Oikonomidou 22γ
— —     V: GR 11979 Oikonomidou 21β
— —     V: GR 11978 Oikonomidou 22β
— —     Turin-RA: 20699 Calomino 489.6
— —     Münzen & Medaillen AG list 303, Aug. 1969, lot 25