S – C


Reference : AYC #1, RIC -
Weight: 26.03 grs
Metal: Bronze
Diameter: 35.00 mm
Scarcity: Extremely rare
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

TI CLAVDIVSCAESARAVGF BRITANNICVS

Draped bust of Britannicus to the right.

/ S – C

Mars, with helmet, walking left, holding a spear with right hand and shield with the left.

Photo of a coin sold the 20/05/2009 by Classical Numismatic Group auction 81, lot 992, link to the sale and their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=140538.

I followed the ranking of Cohen which gives this variant with head to the right on the obverse as main type. Yet this is the rarest type of both. The type with the head to the right is already very rare, but it is the one that we always find.

I also noted this coin with the dots in the legend, it seems to me to have seen a dot on a coin. The copies are always extremely worn, it is impossible to exclude the presence of these dots that are present in the variant (head to the left). On the number and placement of dots, I give the same comments as for Drusus, read here: https://www.all-your-coins.com/en/emperors/romaines-imperiales/drusus. For a brief summary, if you have not read the comments on the link, you can not exclude the presence of all the dots in the legend if only one of these dots appears on a coin. Wear and other striking accidents, lack of space to put the dot in a long legend etc ... Do that if a dot is seen, it seems reasonable to think that this coin has, initially, all the dots. Otherwise, it would be crazy to list the variants of dots present or absent that would be too numerous and do not fall under a real desire of the engraver to differentiate coins. Finally, I have not seen any coin with a coin between TI and CLAVDIVS.