RPC I, 5262A

 

Image of specimen #2

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 5262A
Province Egypt
Region Egypt
City Alexandria
Reign Nero
Obverse inscription
Obverse design head of Zeus, right
Reverse inscription Ι
Reverse design wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 12 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Note This may perhaps be a coin of Alexandria under Nero (cf. RPC 5262). The coin published as DS Supp 3 (Nerone. Corona, dichalkon, anno 10? = D283v.) might indeed be another specimen of the rare D283 = RPC 1, 5262 (value mark I in wreath, rather than year 10), but the obverse does not look much like Nero, and it may perhaps rather be another example of the (probably Neronian) coins with head of Zeus/I in wreath.
Addition Additional coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Kovacs
2 2     ✸ A. Holmes coll.
3 3     NY: 1944.199.69556