Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-R0897 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Augustus; Tiberius I; Lugdunum Denomination: Sesterius Place made: Lyons Culture: Roman Date made: AD 12-14 Metal: Base metal Diameter (cm): 3.50 Weight (g): 25.10 Axis (degrees): 0.00 Provenance: Haines 3502. G. Fallani, 58A Via dei Babuino, Prague, 1959. |

|
Description: Obverse: Head of Tiberius, wearing laurel wreath, facing r. Reverse: Front elevation of the Altar of Lyons, decorated with the corona civica between laurels, these being flanked by male figures; to l. and r., Victories on columns facing one another.
Inscriptions: Obverse: TI CAESAR AVGVSTI F IMPERATOR VII (Tiberius, Son of Caesar Augustus, Imperator for the seventh time) Reverse: None. In Exergue: ROM ET AVG (To Rome and Augustus).
Bibliography: RIC I 2nd ed. 248a (var.)
Notes: Variant inscription on obverse (AVGVSTI not recorded for year 7, year 7 not recorded for inscription AVGVSTI)
|