RPC II, 1953

 

Image of specimen #25

 

Coin type
Volume II
Number 1953
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Antioch
Reign Vespasian
Person (obv.) Vespasian (Augustus)
Issue Tetradrachms: group 4, year 1
Dating AD 69
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ ΟΥΕϹΠΑϹΙΑΝΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ
Edition Αὐτοκρά(τωρ) Οὐεσπασιανὸς Καῖσαρ Σεβαστός
Translation Emperor Vespasian Caesar Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Vespasian, r
Reverse inscription ΕΤΟΥϹ ΝΕΟΥ ΙΕΡΟΥ Α
Edition ἔτους νέου ἱεροῦ αʹ
Translation of the new sacred year 1
Reverse design eagle with wreath in beak standing left, on club.; in left field, palm branch
Metal silver
Average diameter 27 mm
Average weight 14.21 g
Axis 12
Reference Wruck 73, McAlee 20
Specimens 25 (6 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 6, 8–12, 14–16, 19, 22: same obv. die as 1952/1–5. 2, 20: same obv. die. 3–4, 17, 21: same obv. die. 7, 18: same obv. die as 1954/21, 38.
Note 24 coins, 5 obv. dies, 1 shared with 1952, 1 with 1954 (single obv. die: 23)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1935,0803.3
2 2     L: G1030
3 3     C SNG 5872
4 4     B: a. B.
5 5     B: I-B
6 6     NY: 1944.100.61947
7 7     Oslo: UMK
8 8     J-SBF Cafarnao III, 776
9 9     Tiberias hoard 18
10 10     Bathlehem hoard II (1)
11 11     Auctiones AG Basel 8, 1978, lot 487 = UBS 61, 14 Sept. 2004, lot 4522 = CNG Triton XXII, 8 Jan. 2019, lot 574 (ex M. Prieur coll.)
12 12     Rauch 7, 1971, lot 153a
13 13     McAlee coll. = ex Hirsch 160, 1988, lot 414
14 14     Schøyen VES 130
15 15     Schøyen VES 216
16 16     Schøyen VES 217
17 17     Schøyen VES 218
18 18     Schøyen VES 286 = ex MM FPL 441, Feb. 1982, lot 29
19 19     Schøyen VES 306 = ex Münchener Münzhandlung K. Kress 187, 1984, lot 1934
20 20     Schøyen VES 446
21 21     Schøyen VES 452
22 22     Schøyen VES 578
23 23     Prieur coll. = McAlee 21 = CNG EA 437, 6 Feb. 2019, lot 336 (ex Hirsch 170, 22 May 1991, lot 1136)
24 24     Trade Baldwin 1977
25 25     ✸ A. Tricarico coll. (ex Gorny and Mosch 196, 7-9 Mar. 2011, lot 2257)