RPC I, 4865

 

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 4865
Province Syria
Region Samaria
City Caesarea Maritima
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Magistrate Titus Flavius Vespasianus (legatus Augusti pro praetore)
Dating 68
Obverse inscription ΝΕΡΩΝ ϹΕΒ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ
Obverse design laureate head, right
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΥ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΕ(ΩΝ) L ΙΔ
Reverse design inscription in wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Axis 12
Reference BMC 34
Specimens 7 (3 in the core collections)
Note For another issue naming Vespasian, see Sepphoris (4849–50).
Feedback

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 34
2 2     L BMC 35
3 3     NY: 1944.100.68923 SNG 759
4 4     Rosenberger 17
5 5     IMJ Y. Meshorer, City Coinage of Eretz-Israel, p. 20, no. 24
6 6     IMJ Sofaer 16
7 7     Galst coll. = CNG 118, 13 Sept. 2021, lot 842 = Gemini X (13 January 2013), lot 790