v21_2333 - KINGDOM OF COMMAGENE - TIBERIUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 30)

KINGDOM OF COMMAGENE - TIBERIUS Dupondius, (MB, Æ 30) VF

MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Dupondius, (MB, Æ 30)

Date: 20-21

Mint name / Town : Commagène, Samosate

Metal : bronze

Diameter : 29 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 10,54 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Beau portrait. Bel exemplaire pour ce monnayage souvent fruste avec une patine vert olive

Catalogue references :

C.8 (8f.) - RIC.90 - RPC.3869 - BN/R.163 - RCV.- - BMC/RE.175

Obverse

Obverse legend : [TI. CAESAR] DIVI - AVGVSTI F [AVGVSTVS].

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Tibère à droite (O*).

Obverse translation : "Tiberius Cæsar Divi Augusti Filius Augustus", (Tibère César fils du Auguste, auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : PONT MAXIM COS III IMP VII TR POT [XXII].

Reverse description : Caducée ailé ou orné de deux palmettes accosté de deux cornes d'abondance entrecroisées.

Reverse translation : "Pontifex Maximus Consul tertium Imperator septimum Tribunicia Potestate duovicesimum”, (grand pontife consul pour la troisième fois, revêtu de la septième salutation impériale et de la vingt-deuxième puissance tribunitienne).

Commentary

Poids léger. Série à la grosse tête. D. Sear n’a pas retenu ce type dans son ouvrage (RCV 1) et le considère donc comme une monnaie coloniale.

Historical background

KINGDOM OF COMMAGENE - TIBERIUS

(19/08/14-16/03/37)

The kingdom of Commagene was created around 162 BC. Samosata, the capital, was founded by Samos between 140 and 130 BC between Cilicia and Syria Cyrrhestica. On the death of Antiochus III of Commagene, the kingdom was annexed by Tiberius (Tacitus, Annals II. 42). Caligula reconstituted the kingdom for the benefit of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (38-72), son of Antiochus III, friend of Caligula. Deposed by Caligula in 40, he was reinstalled by Claude. In 72, suspected of conspiring with the Parthians, he was again deposed and the kingdom of Commagene was attached to the Roman Empire while the last king spent his last years interned in Sparta, then in Rome.