RPC I, 4085

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 4085
Province Syria
Region Cilicia
City Uncertain Caesarea(s)
Reign Claudius
Person (obv.) Claudius (Augustus)
Issue Year 5
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟϹ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Obverse design bare head of Claudius, right
Reverse inscription ΚΑΙϹΑΡΕΩΝ ΕΤΟΥϹ Ε
Reverse design Zeus seated, left, with patera and sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 29 mm
Axis 12
Reference Ganschow I, p. 57 Typ X3
Specimens 12 (2 in the core collections)
Note See now B. Tahberer, A Series of Coins from an Uncertain Caesarea, NC 175, 2015, pp. 47-55 where it is argued with good arguments, mostly stylistic, that these series were struck at Mopsus between AD 45/6 and AD 50/1, during a period Mopsus called itself Caesarea, though “one can only speculate as to why the change was so short-lived” (p. 53).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1979,0101.2706 vA 6349
2 2     L: 1977,0304.6
3 3     Waddell 9.10.1982, lot 543
4 4     MM Auction 81, 18–19 Sept. 1995, lot 832, ex Bankhaus Aufhäuser 3, 7–9 Oct. 1986, lot 161
5 5     Finarte asta 995 [Fontana] (27.11.1996) lot 741 ex Lockett
6 6     Winterthur: G 6901 ex Bankhaus Aufhäuser 5, 5–7 Oct. 1988, lot 244
7 7     Münzen Auktion Essen 79, 2000, lot 114
8 8     Naville Numismatics 47, 3 Mar. 2019, lot 183
9 9     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 134, 11 Oct. 2004, lot 2041 = Gorny & Mosch 186, 8 Mar. 2010, lot 1634
10 10     Henseler 104
11 11     Henseler 105
12 12     Naumann 57, 3 Sept. 2017, lot 476