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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Thessalonica. Augustus and Divus Julius Caesar. . AE 20, 7.88g. (5h). Thessalonica, c. 14 AD. Obv: Head of Caesar right, ΘΕOC behind. Rx: Head of Augustus right, CEBACTOY behind, ΘΕ before. RPC 5421. About VF.
Ex Randy Haviland Collection.
This piece has traditionally been assigned to Thessalonica, in the BMC catalogue for instance. Touratsoglou however rejects this on the basis of die axis and style. The authors of RPC concur, describing the mint as "uncertain." More recently though an example has appeared (CNG 75, lot 798) which is die-linked to a piece unambiguously bearing the city's ethnic. The suggestion there that this is indeed a coin of Thessalonica, struck from a reverse die reworked to accommodate the deification of Augustus, is accepted here.
Ex Randy Haviland Collection.
This piece has traditionally been assigned to Thessalonica, in the BMC catalogue for instance. Touratsoglou however rejects this on the basis of die axis and style. The authors of RPC concur, describing the mint as "uncertain." More recently though an example has appeared (CNG 75, lot 798) which is die-linked to a piece unambiguously bearing the city's ethnic. The suggestion there that this is indeed a coin of Thessalonica, struck from a reverse die reworked to accommodate the deification of Augustus, is accepted here.