RPC I, 670A

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 670A
Province Sicily
Region Sicily
City Tyndaris
Reign Roman Republic
Magistrate Marcus Vipsanius Dos— (duovir) ; Aulus Pompeius, son of Aulus, grandson of Lucius (duovir)
Obverse inscription M VIPSEN DOS IIVIR EX D D
Edition M(arcus) Vips{e}<a>n(ius) Dos(—) IIvir ex d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)
Translation Marcus Vipsanius Dos— duovir, by decree of the decurions
Obverse design two pilei
Reverse inscription A POMP A F L IIVIR COL TVN
Edition A(ulus) Pomp(eius) A(uli) f(ilius) L(ucii nepos) IIvir col(onia) Tyn(daris)
Translation Aulus Pompeius, son of Aulus, grandson of Lucius, duovir, the colony Tyndaris
Reverse design dolphin and rudder, left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 21 mm
Average weight 7.78 g
Axis 5, 7
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same rev. die.
Note The coin published by R. Martini, ‘Emissione duumvirale della colonia(?) di Tyndaris a firma dei legati(?) di Sextus Pompeius A. Pomponius M.f. Vic(tor) ed A. (Flaminius?) Flamma’, Annotazioni Numismatiche 29, Marzo 1998, pp. 666-70), 8.79, was recently cleaned and will be published again by P. Villemur, ‘De quelques émissions coloniales romaines en Sicile: retour à Tyndaris’ in Peter G. Van Alfen, Gilles Bransbourg, Michel Amandry (eds.), FIDES : Contributions to numismatics in honor of Richard B. Witschonke (New York, 2015), pp. 435-53. The attribution to Tyndaris was wrongly doubted in Supp. I as the legends clearly read: [ ] SEN IIVIR EX DD/A POMP A FL[ ]COL TVN. The reverse design is indeed a dolphin.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 2016/1 R. Martini, Annotazioni Numismatiche 29, 1998, pp. 666–70; P. Villemur, Le monnayage colonial romain de Tyndaris en Sicile, BSFN 70, 2, Février 2015, p. 28, Fig. 8; Id., De quelques émissions coloniales romaines en Sicile: retour à Tyndaris, in P. van Alfen, G. Bransbourg and M. Amandry (eds), FIDES. Contributions to Numismatics in Honor of (New York, 2015), pp. 438–9, 6, 443–4 and Pl. 2, 22
2 2     RBW coll. = LAC 3, 2011, lot 139 = P. Villemur, loc. cit., p. 438, 5 and Pl. 2, 21
3 3     Naville Numismatics 50, 23 June 2019, lot 139