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| Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 55 | Auction date: 8 October 2010 |
| Lot number: 153 | |
| Lot description: LOKRIS LOKRI OPUNTII Lot of two bronze coins, Tiberius, AD 14 - 37. 153.1: Æ 6.20 g., 4¢. 153.2: Æ 5.97 g., 12¢. Bare head of Tiberius r. Rev. Male figure standing l., holding drapery and extending patera with r. Both coins countermarked with poppy head on the obverse. None in public collections, the only known Opuntian coins for Tiberius are the above two and one more in worse condition belonging to this writer. Some flatness due to the countermarks, otherwise with nice olive-green patinas and very fine / fine. 153.1: [TI KAICAP] CEB[ACT]OC from top r. clockwise. Rev. OP[OYNTIWN] from bottom l. clockwise. Corpus group 37, 3a. RPC S-1338A, 2 (this coin). 153.2: TI KAICAP C[EBAC]TOC from top r. clockwise. Rev. [O]ΠOYNT[IΩN] from bottom l. clockwise. Corpus group 37, 1b. RPC S-1338A, 1 (this coin, illustrated). The poppy head countermark on 153.1 is weakly struck in part but it is still possible to see that it is not the same as the countermark on 153.2. This has an additional small wheatear branching out from the poppy stem. Estimate: 300 CHF |  |
