RPC I, 798

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 798
Province Africa Proconsularis
Region Africa
City Achulla
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus ; Gaius (Caesar) ; Lucius (Caesar)
Person (rev.) Publius Quinctilius Varus (proconsul)
Magistrate Publius Quinctilius Varus (proconsul)
Dating 8/7 BC
Obverse inscription AVG PONT MAX, C L (in field under Augustus's head)
Edition Augustus Pontifex Maximus Caius Lucius Aug(ustus) Pont(ifex) Max(imus) C(aius) L(ucius)
Translation Augustus, chief priest, Gaius (and) Lucius
Obverse design bare head of Augustus, left; in front, bare head of Gaius, r; behind, bare head of Lucius, left
Reverse inscription P QVINCTILI VARI ACHVLLA
Edition Publii Quinctilii Vari Achulla P(ublii) Quinctili(i) Vari Achulla
Translation of Publius Quinctilius Varus, Achulla
Reverse design bare head of Varus, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 30 mm
Average weight 13.77 g
Axis 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12
Reference Mu 7–8, FITA 230 (1), Alexandropoulos 59
Specimens 22 (10 in the core collections)
Note See M. Amandry ‘Notes de Numismatique Africaine, VI. 8.Achulla’, RN 1992, pp. 46-53.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 98 FITA, pl. VII.31; obv.
2 2     P: 99 FITA, pl. VII.30; rev.
3 3     P: 100
4 4     P D'Ailly 17444
5 5     L: G 315
6 6     B: 18200214, I-B
7 7     B: 18205048, 485/1891
8 8     Cop SNG 51
9 9     G Hunter III, pl. XCIII, 7 = SNG 244
10 10     Stockholm
11 11     Stockholm
12 12     ✸ C. Roettger coll. = CNG Triton XI, 8 Jan. 2008, lot 553 (Villemur coll.)
13 13     Mainz RGZM = F. J. Hassel, 'Zur Münze des Varus im RGZM', Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zantralmuseums Mainz 20, 1973, 191–2, taf. 55 = ex MM 41/1970, 619
14 14     V. Zedelius, 'P. Quintilius Varus in Achulla', Bonner Jahrbucher 183, 1983, 469–74, taf. 1, 2
15 15     Stuttgart: MK 1987/14 Private coll. Köln = Hassel, loc. cit., taf. 55, 2 = Ulrich Klein, "Berichte der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen / Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart / Neuerwerbungen 1987 / Münzkabinett", in Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg 25, 1988, p 288-296
16 16     B: 18205050, 294/1889
17 17     C. Roettger coll. = Künker 257, 10 Oct. 2014, lot 8876
18 18     C. Roettger coll. = Gorny & Mosch 244, 6 Mar. 2017, lot 417
19 19     C. Roettger coll. = Roma Numismatics EA 38, 29 July 2017, lot 327
20 20     CNG 106, 13 Sept. 2017, lot 632
21 21     CNG EA 416, 14 Mar. 2018, lot 394 = Künker 396, 13 Nov. 2023, lot 1013
22 22     C. Röttger coll. (ex CNG EA 594, 27 Aug. 2025, lot 321)