RPC I, 953A

 

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Coin type
Volume I
Number 953A
Province Cyrenaica and Crete
Region Crete
City Eleutherna
Reign Tiberius
Person (obv.) Tiberius (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Augustus (Divus)
Magistrate Cornelius Lupus (proconsul)
Obverse inscription ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ Ε ΚΟΡ ΛΥ
Obverse design laureate head of Tiberius, right
Reverse inscription ΘΕΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ ΕΛΕΥΘΕ
Reverse design radiate head of Divus Augustus, right
Metal silver
Average diameter 19 mm
Specimens 1 (0 in the core collections)
Note On Eleutherna, see now P. Themelis (ed), Ancient Eleutherna. Sector I (Athens, 2009), with a very short survey, by K. Sidiropoulos, of the 761 coins recovered in Sector I (pp. 97-9).
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ Künker 136, 10 Mar. 2008, lot 58 (ex Dorotheum, Apostolo Zeno coll. III, 22–23 Mar. 1957, lot 3896; MM FPL 170, July 1957, lot 1; Peus 382, 26 Apr. 2005, lot 608)