RPC I, 4977

 

Image of specimen #16

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4977
Province Judaea
Region Syria
City Caesarea Paneas
Reign Caligula
Person (obv.) Milonia Caesonia
Person (rev.) Julia Drusilla
Issue Year 5
Dating AD 40/1
Obverse inscription ΚΑΙΣΩΝΙΑ ΓΥΝΗ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ
Edition Καϊσωνία γυνὴ Σεβαστοῦ
Translation Caesonia, wife of Augustus
Obverse design draped bust of Caesonia, left
Reverse inscription ΔΡΟΥΣΙΛΛΑ ΘΥΓΑΤΡΙ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΥ, LΕ (to left)
Edition Δρουσίλλᾳ θυγατρὶ Σεβαστοῦ (ἔτους) εʹ
Translation to Drusilla, daughter of Augustus, of year 5
Reverse design Drusilla, standing, holding Nike and branch
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 18 mm
Average weight 6.12 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference Meshorer 3 corr., Burnett, Agrippa 6; Burnett, Agrippa (2014) 4977
Specimens 16 (2 in the core collections)
Note For further specimens from the excavations at Gamala (Golan Heights), see INJ 12 (1992-93), p. 48 nos. 35-36. The reading of RPC and the identification as Caesonia were rejected by N. Kokkinos, Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady (London, 2002), pp. 101-3, 265-7, who preferred Antonia, but Caesonia is confirmed by the new CNG 531 specimen..
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1898,0103.1
2 2     Mu Trillmich, Familenpropaganda der Kaiser Caligula und Claudius, pp. 173–5 and Taf. 16.24
3 3     Kindler, Ha'aretez Museum Yearbook 1983–4, p. 70
4 4     Kindler, Ha'aretez Museum Yearbook 1983–4, p. 70
5 5     Kindler, Ha'aretez Museum Yearbook 1983–4, p. 70
6 6     Meshorer 3
7 7     Meshorer 3a
8 8     J. Maltiel-Gerstenfeld, 260 Years of Ancient Jewish Coins, no. 127
9 9     Goldberg 104, 12 June 2018, lot 3106
10 10     CNG EA 413, 31 Jan. 2018, lot 308
11 11     IMJ Sofaer 150
12 12     Galst coll. = CNG 118, 13 Sept. 2021, lot 759
13 13     CNG MBS 81, 20 May 2009, lot 849
14 14     CNG 120, 11 May 2022, lot 668
15 15     D. Kimel coll.
16 16     ✸ CNG EA 531, 25 Jan. 2023, lot 634