RPC I, 2092

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 2092
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Bithynia
City Heraclea Pontica
Reign Nero
Person (obv.) Nero (Augustus)
Magistrate Tiberius Attius Laco (proconsul)
Issue First group
Dating c. 54/5
Obverse inscription ΝΕ ΚΛΑΥΔΙΩ ΚΑΙΣΑΡΙ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΩ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙ
Obverse design laureate head of Nero, left
Reverse inscription ΕΠΙ ΛΑΚΩΝΟΣ ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΟΥ ΗΡΑΚΛΕΩΤΑΝ
Reverse design goddess (Hera?) on basis, raising veil in hands
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rec 84
Specimens 1 (1 in the core collections)
Note The correct reading of the reverse legend is ΕΠI ΤI ΑΤΤIΟΥ..., as given by G. Stumpf, Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der Römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (1991), no. 295. As a result we know that the proconsul’s praenomen was Tiberius. —— Corr: with coin 2, both obverse and reverse legends are now complete.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 628 Wa 340 = Rec, pl. LVIII.3