Roma Numismatics Ltd
E-Live Auction 6 25 Mar 2023
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Octavian(?) Æ 28mm of uncertain mint, Asia Minor. Circa 30 BC(?). Bare head to right / Hasta, sella quaestoria and fiscus; Q below. RPC I 5409. 18.90g, 28mm, 12h.
Very Fine; attractive dark green patina.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 77, 26 November 2020, lot 687;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 8, 31 May 2014, lot 372.
The uncertainty surrounding both the issuing authority, figure depicted and even mint location of this issue continues to be the subject of debate, with RPC assigning it to possibly Cilicia or Syria on the basis of find location, and suggesting that the portrait is Octavian based on similarities to the "Princeps Felix" coinage from Cilicia (RPC I 4082-3). This is in contrast to previous attributions which have ranged from Brutus (suggested by Friedlander), Caesar (proposed by Grant) and the Governor of Syria Gaius Sosius, to whom these pieces have often been ascribed by the trade.
Very Fine; attractive dark green patina.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 77, 26 November 2020, lot 687;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 8, 31 May 2014, lot 372.
The uncertainty surrounding both the issuing authority, figure depicted and even mint location of this issue continues to be the subject of debate, with RPC assigning it to possibly Cilicia or Syria on the basis of find location, and suggesting that the portrait is Octavian based on similarities to the "Princeps Felix" coinage from Cilicia (RPC I 4082-3). This is in contrast to previous attributions which have ranged from Brutus (suggested by Friedlander), Caesar (proposed by Grant) and the Governor of Syria Gaius Sosius, to whom these pieces have often been ascribed by the trade.