Tiberius
Group 1: Roman coin circulating in the Indian region.
Group 2: Imitation of very good quality with a degenerate but similar legend.
Group 3: Imitation totally degenerate.
Group 4: Imitation of an existing type but in another denomination, example: a denier transformed into aureus. But very good.
Group 5: Like type 4 but with a legend and a completely degenerate style.
Group 6: hybrids Roman / Indian coins degenerate or of good quality.
List of types
- Aureus
Aureus
PONTIF MAXIM Group 1
Mint : Lugdunum (imitate)
TI CAESAR DIVI – AVG F AVGVSTVS
Bust of tiberius, to the right, laureate.
PONTIF – MAXIM
Livia as PAX, sitting on a chair holding a long scepter with her right hand and an olive branch with her left hand. Two lines below the character.
| 850 € |
The RIC give us 3 different Aureii, but describes variants of scepter and spear. However, there is an error between RIC 25 and RIC 29. The 25 is with scepter, but 29 is described as "like 25 except that there is a scepter instead of the spear" so has twice the same thing. I decided to assign the RIC 25 to this coin, because the only difference between the RIC 25 and the RIC 29 is the number of lines below Livia.
Coin sold by Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 366, lot 8, 13.01.2016. Link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3334179. Link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.
Board of styles
1 
1 Coin sold by Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 366, lot 9, 13.01.2016. Link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3334180. Link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.
Variants
One line under Livia
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As AYC #1 but with only one line under the character.
RIC 29 (see explanation on PONTIF MAXIM just above).
Coin sold by Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 366, lot 10, 13.01.2016. Link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3334181. Link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.
Variants
One line under Livia turned left
TI CAESAR D (F retrograde) IVI – AVC C AVCTV
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MIXAM – PONTIF (retrograde legend)
'' '' turned left.
Imitation of RIC 29 but turned left (only one line under the character, see above). Mint imitated: Lyon. The reverse is totally inverted. Is the photo inverted due to an error? Or the coin presents this reverse? If the reverse is actually inverted, with the character on the left and the inverted words, we can ask if the copy technique created this visual.
Coin sold by Classical Numismatic Group, Electronic Auction 366, lot 12, 13.01.2016. Link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3334183. Link to their website: https://www.cngcoins.com/.