RPC I, 533

 

Image of specimen #78

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 533
Province Gallia Narbonensis
Region Gaul
City Arausio
Reign Roman Republic
Person (obv.) Agrippa ; Augustus
Obverse inscription IMP DIVI F
Edition Imp(erator) Divi f(ilius)
Translation Emperor, son of the divine
Obverse design bare heads of Augustus, right, and Agrippa, left
Reverse inscription
Reverse design prow with superstructure, right; on the prow, 'eye'; above, medallion enclosing a ram's head?
Metal bronze
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 17.44 g
Axis 3, 9
Reference FITA 208–10, RN 1984, 77–84
Specimens 80 (7 in the core collections)
Note See now V. Geneviève, ‘Le monnayage colonial d’Octave à la proue et « à la tête de bélier’ (Arausio ? RPC 533). Une nouvelle proposition d’attribution : Tolosa ?’, in M. Paz García-Bellido, A. Mostalac and A. Jiménez (eds), Del Imperium de Pompeyo a la Auctoritas de Augusto. Homenaje a Michael Grant, Anejos de AEspA XL- VII (2008), pp. 191-208. With an updated inventory of finds, from archaeological excavations and private collections, Geneviève challenges the attribution of this coinage to Arausio and its area, and offers, with quite good arguments, a new hypothesis for their minting place: the city of Tolosa (Toulouse).
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