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Lot 711

Estimate: 75 GBP
Price realized: 45 GBP
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Claudius I Æ 29mm of uncertain Caesarea, Cilicia. Dated RY 5 = AD 45/6. TIBЄPIOC KΛΑΥΔΙΟC ΚΑΙCΑΡ, bare head to right / KAICAPEΩN, Zeus seated to left, holding patera and sceptre; to upper left, ETOVC E (date) in two lines. RPC I 4085; Ganschow I, p. 57 Typ X3; SNG von Aulock 6349. 12.08g, 26mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine. Very Rare.

From the collection of Z.P., Austria.

B. Tahberer has argued that this type was likely struck in Mopsus on stylistic grounds between AD 45/6 and AD 50/1, during which time the city called itself "Caesarea" (A Series of Coins from an Uncertain Caesarea, NC 175, 2015, pp. 47-55) .
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