Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar, Æ 21mm of Thessalonica, Macedon. Circa AD 14. ΘEOC, bare head of Divus Julius Caesar to right / CEBACTOY ΘE, bare head of Augustus to right. RPC I 5421 (uncertain mint); BMC 61; Varbanov 4154; cf. Touratsoglou, p. 43, 69 (uncertain mint in Asia Minor). 7.08g, 21mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine. Very Rare.
From a private UK collection.
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 accommodate the deification of Augustus, although questions still remain over the peculiar use of the abbreviation ΘE for ΘEOY.
Near Very Fine. Very Rare.
From a private UK collection.
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 accommodate the deification of Augustus, although questions still remain over the peculiar use of the abbreviation ΘE for ΘEOY.