RPC I, 4465

 

Image of specimen #29

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4465
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Claudia Leucas
Reign Uncertain
Issue uncertain date (probably later than c. 50)
Obverse inscription ΚΛΑΥΔΙΕΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΙ
Edition Κλαυδιέων τῶν καί
Translation of the Claudians also called
Obverse design female bust with crescent, right
Reverse inscription ΛΕΥΚΑΔΙΩΝ
Edition Λευκαδίων
Translation the Leucadians
Reverse design radiate head, right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 15 mm
Average weight 2.96 g
Axis 12
Reference de Saulcy 22, no. 4, BMC Leucas 1
Specimens 29 (25 in the core collections)
Note On some specimens (1, 21) the obv. legend is ΚΛΑΥΔΙΑΙWΝ, linking the issue with 4464. The heads are often identified as Agrippina and Claudius (BMC; Mionnet; Seyrig on the tickets under his coins), but a simple radiate head, presumably of Helios, had occurred under Antony (4458). Imhoof-Blumer noted a similarity with heads of Trajan, but still preferred to date the coin to the period of Claudius or Nero (GRMK, p. 236), perhaps because he thought that the coin came from Apamea, whose coinage ended under Claudius. The origin of the identification as Claudius and Agrippina seems to go back to the misreading of ΤWΝ as ΘΠ (de Saulcy, p. 22, nos 5–6); the date 89 would, on an era of 37, be AD 52.
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