| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119 | Auction date: 24 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 1093 Price realized: 3 GBP (Approx. 4 USD / 3 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Claudius Æ 19mm of Mopsouestia-Mopsus, Cilicia. AD 41-54. [ΚΛΑΥ]ΔΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ, laureate head to right / ЄΤΟΥ[Ϲ ΚΑΙϹΑΡЄΩΝ, turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche to right; Γ (date) to left. B. Tahberer, "A Series of Coins from an Uncertain Caesarea," in NC 175 (2015), type 1, pp. 47-55 (for attribution to Mopsouestia-Mopsos); RPC I 4084 (Uncertain Caesarea); SNG Copenhagen 177 (Caesarea, Cappadocia); BMC 5 (Anazarbus). 5.38g, 19mm, 12h. Good Fine. Purchased from Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG, March 2008. Attribution of this issue has been a contentious subject, with various mints named Caesarea proposed. Here we assign it to Cilicia on the basis of the 2015 article by B. Tahberer ("A Series of Coins from an Uncertain Caesarea", NC 175, 2015, pp. 47-55) where it is argued on mostly stylistic grounds that this series and a parallel one were struck at Mopsus between AD 45/6 and AD 50/1, during a period Mopsus called itself Caesarea. Estimate: 5 GBP |  |
