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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1364. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008. 
Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Aegeae. Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 28mm (12.38 g, 12h). Dated CY 87 (40/1 AD). Diademed and draped bust of Augustus right / Bare head of Julius Caesar right. Cf. RPC 4036; SNG France -; SNG Levante 1691 (same dies). Near VF, dark olive-green patina, minor smoothing in fields.


From the J.S. Wagner Collection.

While the early imperial coinage of this city is not well-known, owing to the great rarity of its examples, this issue in particular, proves to be the most enigmatic. Because of the inclusion of civic years on the coins, our specimen is known to be part of a type which was struck during the reigns of both Gaius and Claudius. As to whom the portraits represent, there has been much scholarly debate. Ruprecht Ziegler (Städtisches Prestige und kaiserliche Politik, p. 17), suggests the portraits are Alexander III of Macedon and Julius Caesar respectively, as the founders of the city.