RPC I, 5448

 

Image of specimen #7

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 5448
Province Uncertain
Region Uncertain
City Uncertain
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
Obverse design bare head of Tiberius, right
Reverse inscription ΘΕΟΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ
Reverse design capricorn, right, with filleted cornucopia and globe
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 8 (3 in the core collections)
Note See 5423. -- See now M. Amandry, 'Une mystérieuse émission provinciale tibérienne frappée en Asie Mineure', in R.Bland and D. Calomino (eds), Studies in Ancient Coinage in Honour of Andrew Burnett (London, 2015), pp. 119-23.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1988,1126.2
2 2     CGT coll.
3 3     B: 18240816, I-B Grant, Essays Mattingly, 104–5 and pl. IV.6
4 4     Freeman and Sear, MBS 3, 10 Dec. 1996, lot 724
5 5     P: 2002/207
6 6     CGT coll. ex Pecunem 20, 3 Aug. 2014, lot 392
7 7     ✸ Leu EA 17, 14 Aug. 2021, lot 2120
8 8     CGT coll. = Savoca 140th Blue, 13 Aug. 2022, lot 654