RPC I, 4786

 

Image of specimen #20

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4786
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Damascus
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Issue Year 283
Dating 30/29 BC
Obverse inscription
Obverse design bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription ΔΑΜΑΣΚΗΝΩΝ L ΓΠΣ
Edition Δαμασκηνῶν (ἔτους) γπσʹ
Translation of the Damascenes, of year 283
Reverse design Tyche seated, left, on rock with arm outstretched and holding cornucopia; below, river god; all in wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 7.47 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference de Saulcy 1, AMC 1479
Specimens 21 (11 in the core collections)
Note The date is always retrograde.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1910,0609.3
2 2     NY: 1961.154.324
3 3     B: 18257331, Rauch
4 4     B: 18241374, Löbb
5 5     P: 31
6 6     P: 32
7 7     O AMC 1479
8 8     V: GR 21855
9 9     Mu: 7
10 10     Rosenberger 8
12 12     JSW
13 13     JSW = CNG EA 341, 17 Dec. 2014, lot 11
14 14     JSW
15 15     JSW = CNG EA 341, 17 Dec. 2014, lot 10
16 16     P N Schulten (Köln) 22.4.1985, lot 326
17 17     RW
18 18     NY: 1944.100.79325
19 19     NY: 1944.100.79326
20 20     ✸ P. Villemur coll. = CNG MBS 78, 14 May 2008, lot 1453
21 21     Roma Numismatics EA 63, 7 Nov. 2019, lot 467
22 22     CGT coll. = Roma EA 4, 28 Dec. 2013, lot 399