RPC II, 714

 

Image of specimen #8

 

Coin type
Volume II
Number 714
Province Bithynia-Pontus
Region Paphlagonia
City Sinope
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Titus (Caesar)
Issue Year 118 = AD 72/3
Dating AD 72/3
Obverse inscription T CAESAR IMP VESPASIANVS PONT TR P
Edition T(itus) Caesar Imp(erator) Vespasianus Pont(ifex) Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate)
Translation Titus Caesar, Emperor Vespasian, High Priest, with Tribunician Power
Obverse design laureate head of Titus, right
Reverse inscription C I F AN CXIIX
Edition c(olonia) I(ulia) F(elix) an(no) CXIIX
Translation the Julian colony of Felix (Sinope), in year 118
Reverse design Apollo, naked, standing facing and holding branch, in canopied shrine with two columns
Metal copper
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 10.72 g
Axis 6, 12
Specimens 8 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same pair of dies.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1970,0909.25
2 2     B: Löbb.
3 3     see Rec pl. XXVII.13
4 4 –7     see Rec
8 8     ✸ Leu 3, 27 Oct. 2018, lot 148