RPC I, 3243

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 3243
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Philomelium
Region Phrygia
City Philomelium
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Magistrate Flaccus
Obverse inscription ΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣ
Obverse design bare head of Augustus, right
Reverse inscription ΦΙΛΟΜΗΛΕΩΝ ΦΛΑΚΚΟϹ
Reverse design draped bust of Mên, right, wearing Phrygian cap and crescent on shoulders
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 16 mm
Axis 12
Specimens 6 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3–5: same pair of dies. 1, 3–6: same obv. die.
Note The portrait copies coin portraits of about 20–15 BC (the 'young bull' denarii: RIC 475).
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.50552
2 2     Istanbul E. Lane, Corpus Monumentorum Religionis Dei Menis, pl. XXVI, Philomelium 2
3 3     Egger XLVI, 1914 (Prowe coll.), lot 1817
4 4     ✸ Pecunem Gitbud & Naumann 34, 2 Aug. 2015, lot 755
5 5     Savoca Live Online 10, 16 Oct. 2016, lot 443
6 6     CGT coll.