RPC I, 1

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume I
Number 1
Province Lusitania
Region Hispania
City Uncertain mint of North West Spain (?)
Reign Augustus
Person (obv.) Augustus
Obverse inscription IMP AVG DIVI F
Obverse design bare head of Augustus left; in front palm; behind, winged caduceus
Reverse inscription
Reverse design round shield; around, some large pellets
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 37 mm
Reference L. Villaronga, XI CNA, 598, A1
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same pair of dies.
Note See now C. Pérez González, E. Illaregui Gómez and A. Morillo Cerdán, ‘Reflexiones sobre las monedasde la Caetra procedentes de Herrera de Pisuerga (Palencia)’, La Moneda Hispánica. Ciudad y Territorio. Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología XIV (1995), pp. 199-206. S. Ferrer, XXII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología (Vigo, 1993), pp. 283-8, and L. Sagredo, Hispania Antiqua XIX (1995), pp. 37-75 have discussed these coins and suggested that 1-3 were struck in c. 19 BC in LucusAugusti (Lugo), because of the finds there, especially a flan for making coins like 3. T.R. Volk, ‘Hispania andthe gold and silver coinage of Augustus’, La moneda en temps d’August (Barcelona, 1997), pp. 73-4, has suggested that the metrology, fabric and style of the coins suggest that they were probably struck by workers detached from the ‘Patricia’ group.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Calicó, 6/1979, 1274 = L. Villaronga, XI CNA, 598, A1 = ANE 6/1968, 48
2 2     Cores coll. = Baldwin, M&M, and Vecchi, New York Sale 2, 2 Dec. 1999, lot 140
3 3     ✸ Museu Diogo de Sousa, Braga, NI 2005.0462 = R. S. Centeno. Um novo sestercio de Augusto com a caetra no reverso, aparecido em Braga, Bracara Augusta (R. Morais), Braga, 2010: 171– 173. F. Cebreiro, La emisión de sestercios del Noroeste a la luz de un nuevo hallazgo, Saguntum 44, 2012: 203– 206