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Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar, Æ20 of Thessalonica, Macedon. Struck circa AD 14. ΘEOC, bare head of Divus Julius Caesar right / CEBACTOY ΘE, bare head of Augustus right. RPC I 5421 var. (Uncertain Mint; placement of rev. legend). 5.56g, 20mm, 6h.
Very Fine, good style. Scrape to rev. Very Rare.
From the S.C. Collection;
Ex Baldwin's FSPL, 2010, no. 25.
Assigned to Thessalonica by Head in the BMC catalogue, this was disputed by Touratsoglou on the basis of style and the author's of RPC I (1992) have followed this, listing this type as 'Uncertain Mint'. However, the appearance of a piece (CNG 75, 23 May 2007, lot 798) die-linked to a coin bearing the ethnic of Thessalonica places this coin definitely as having been issued by that city. It was suggested by the CNG cataloguer, and is followed now, that the dies for this type were re-worked to accomodate the deification of Augustus, although questions still remain over the peculiar use of the abbreviation ΘE for ΘEOY.
Very Fine, good style. Scrape to rev. Very Rare.
From the S.C. Collection;
Ex Baldwin's FSPL, 2010, no. 25.
Assigned to Thessalonica by Head in the BMC catalogue, this was disputed by Touratsoglou on the basis of style and the author's of RPC I (1992) have followed this, listing this type as 'Uncertain Mint'. However, the appearance of a piece (CNG 75, 23 May 2007, lot 798) die-linked to a coin bearing the ethnic of Thessalonica places this coin definitely as having been issued by that city. It was suggested by the CNG cataloguer, and is followed now, that the dies for this type were re-worked to accomodate the deification of Augustus, although questions still remain over the peculiar use of the abbreviation ΘE for ΘEOY.