RPC I, 5450

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 5450
Province Uncertain
Region Uncertain
City Uncertain
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription TI [CAESA]R DIVI AVG F AVGVST IMP VII
Obverse design bare head, right
Reverse inscription [ ] (?)
Reverse design helmeted head, right (?)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note This sestertius is in the P trays, among the Roman sestertii, but it is alien to the production of Rome. Its style might suggest an African origin(compare, e.g., the Tiberian coinage of Colonia lulia Pia Paterna: 762-70); the rev. type, a helmeted head(?), occurs on the coinage of Cercina(802). Therefore a Byzacenian origin is suggested here.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 937