Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVI 26 Sep 2018
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Claudius I AR Cistophorus. Uncertain mint in Asia Minor, AD 41-54. TI CLAVD CAES AVG, bare-head left / Distyle temple inscribed ROM ET AVG on entablature and containing figure of Augustus, standing facing on left, holding spear, being crowned by female figure on right, holding cornucopiae; COM-ASI across fields. RIC 120 (Pergamum); BMCRE 228 (Ephesus?) RPC 2221 (same). 11.31g, 26mm, 6h.
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From a private British collection.
Not since the magnificent and varied types of Augustus over sixty years earlier had any cistophori been produced by the Romans. Two brief issues were struck under Claudius, which appear to have been commemorative in nature, and not intended for general circulation. The present type, from the first issue, probably depicts the temple of Roma and Augustus at Pergamum, to which mint this type is sometimes attributed. The authors of RPC note however that the numerous die links between this issue and that depicting the temple of Diana at Ephesus indicate that despite the reverse types, the coins were all produced at a single mint - probably Ephesus, since that is where the second Claudian issue appears to have been made.
Good Extremely Fine.
From a private British collection.
Not since the magnificent and varied types of Augustus over sixty years earlier had any cistophori been produced by the Romans. Two brief issues were struck under Claudius, which appear to have been commemorative in nature, and not intended for general circulation. The present type, from the first issue, probably depicts the temple of Roma and Augustus at Pergamum, to which mint this type is sometimes attributed. The authors of RPC note however that the numerous die links between this issue and that depicting the temple of Diana at Ephesus indicate that despite the reverse types, the coins were all produced at a single mint - probably Ephesus, since that is where the second Claudian issue appears to have been made.