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Object Type
Museum number: IOC.1208
Denomination: aureus
Description: Gold coin. (whole); Head of Tiberius, laureate, right. (obverse); Tiberius, laureate and cloaked, standing in quadriga right, holding laurel-branch in right hand and eagle-tipped sceptre in left. (reverse)
State
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 15-16
Production place: Minted in: Lugdunum
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: India (pre-1947)
Materials
Dimensions: Die-axis: 1 o'clock; Diameter: 19 millimetres; Weight: 7.80 grammes
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: RE1 / Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol. 1: Augustus to Vitellius (5, p.120); RIC1 / The Roman Imperial Coinage, vol. 1 (3, p.93) (type); Turner 1989 / Roman Coins from India (p.102)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: emperor/empress; charioteer/chariot; equestrian
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1882
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: IOC.1208
C&M catalogue number: RE1 (120) (5)

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