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ID:
75000833
[UNVERIFIED]
Type:
Roman Provincial
Region:
UNCERTAIN PROVINCIAL MINTS
City:
Uncertain Asia Minor
Issuer:
Augustus
Date Ruled:
27-14 BC-AD
Metal:
Bronze
Denomination:
AE 28
Struck / Cast:
struck
Date Struck:
27-14 BC-AD
Diameter:
28 mm
Weight:
27.24 g
Die Axis:
11 h
Obverse Legend:
none
Obverse Description:
Bare head right
Reverse Legend:
Q
Reverse Description:
Spear, sella quaestoria, and fiscus, Q below sella
Primary Reference:
RPC I 5409
Reference2:
AMNG II 29 (Pella) note
Reference3:
FITA 13-19 (Thessalonica[?])
Photograph Credit:
Classical Numismatic Group
Source:
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=103741
Grade:
Near VF, brown-black patina, light scratch on obverse
Notes:
Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 833 Rare. Ex Malter 34 (13 December 1986), lot 341; Thomas Ollive Mabbott Collection (Part I, H. Schulman, 6 June 1969), lot 387.The similarity of this coin's reverse to that of Aesillas led to the earlier attribution of this issue to Macedonia. Unlike the more typical club of Hercules, the presence of a spear (hasta) suggested the issuer to be an as-yet-unknown quaestor propraetore, who, unlike Aesillas, would have held the power of imperium. Based on this assumption, Grant gave the issue to M. Acilius at Thessalonica, whom he tentatively identified as Caesar's governor of Macedonia in the final year of the Dictator's life.The style of the portrait is identical to a coin of the possible Cilician Colonia Iulia Veteranorum (RPC I 4082). That coin bears the additional obverse legend PRINCEPS FELIX, a title which clearly identifies the portrait as Augustus. Imhoof-Blumer and Grant both assigned the forementioned issue and our coin to the southwestern areas of the Black Sea, but to date no specimen of our coin has turned up in sites there, as one might expect if that region were its point of origin. The patination, typical of Syria, may lend support for locating this coin there; at present the lack of conclusive evidence seems to preclude a more certain attribution.
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