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
Edition Τιβέριος Καῖσαρ Σεβαστὸς ἐ(πὶ) Κορ(νηλίου) Λύ(που)
Translation Tiberius Caesar Augustus, under Cornelius Lupus
Obverse design laureate head of Tiberius, right
Reverse inscription ΘΕΟϹ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ ΕΛΕΥΘΕ
Edition Θεὸς Σεβαστὸς Ἐλευθε(ρναίων)
Translation divine Augustus, of the Eleuthernans
Reverse design radiate head of Divus Augustus, right
Metal silver
Average diameter 19 mm
Average weight 2.43 g
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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