RPC I, 676

 

Image of specimen #12

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 676
Province Sicily
Region Sicily
City Cossura
Reign Roman Republic
Obverse inscription
Obverse design female head (Isis?), crowned by Nike, left; before modius (?)
Reverse inscription COSSVRA
Reverse design in wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Axis 6, 12
Specimens 15 (4 in the core collections)
Note The puzzle of the countermark has been solved by the new evidence that Cossyra had become at municipium with decuriones: see R. J. A. Wilson, ‘Pantelleria Revealed: The Archaeology of Cossyra’, Mouseion III.17 (2020), pp. 515–545, at 539; R. J.A. Wilson, ‘Aspects of identity: Provincia Sicilia during the Roman Empire’, in O. Belvedere and J. Bergemann (eds.), Imperium Romanum: Romanization between Colonization and Globalization (Palermo, 2021), pp. 309-32, at 310-12

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1928,0510.148
2 2     Palermo = Gabrici 26
3 3     Palermo = Gabrici 27
4 4     Palermo = Gabrici 28
5 5     Palermo = Gabrici 29
6 6     Palermo = Gabrici 30
7 7     N: 6126
8 8     N: 6127
9 9     N: 6128
10 10     Mini 6
11 11     Cop SNG 452
12 12     ✸ B: 18271189, Fox
13 13     B: 18271190, Löbb.
14 14     CNG Mail Bid 79, 17 Sep. 2008, lot 122
15 15     Roma Numismatics Anders coll., 8 Sep. 2022, lot 368