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| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 109 | Auction date: 11 May 2023 |
| Lot number: 809 | |
| Lot description: Claudius Æ 21mm of Mopsouestia-Mopsus, Cilicia. AD 41-54. ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟϹ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ, laureate head to right / ЄΤΟΥϹ 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). 5.58g, 21mm, 12h. Very 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: 30 GBP |  |
