Tiberius "Tribute Penny" Denarius — Livia as Pax

Attribution: Gaul (Lugdunensis). Lugdunum. Tiberius. c. 15–18 AD (reign 14–37 AD). AR. denarius.

Obverse: Laureate head of Tiberius right

Reverse: Female figure (traditionally Livia as Pax), draped, seated right on chair with plain legs, holding long sceptre and olive branch; double line below chair

Weight: 3.78 g (tag) (Weight from the dealer tag; not re-weighed.) Reference: RIC I 26

Related — The same coin at auction ten weeks before it was bought — the cataloguer’s obverse and reverse photographs for CNG, Triton XXV Online Session, lot 6597, closed 25/26 January 2022. **Same-coin evidence:** identical weight and flan (19 mm, 3.78 g, 3h); the same Group 1 (AD 15–18) variety with *plain chair legs and two lines below the throne* (RIC I 26; Lyon 144; RSC 16); the same Good VF grade, even old-cabinet toning, tiny mark on the obverse and faint hairlines under the tone; and the verbatim provenance line “From the Dr. John Whitehead Collection, purchased from Mike Vosper” — the two names written on the Bezayiff tag above.
Image source & licence
Image: Classical Numismatic Group, LLC (cngcoins.com), Triton XXV Online Session, lot 6597, via NumisBids; © CNG, reproduced here to document this specimen’s provenance.

Tiberius "Tribute Penny" Denarius — Livia as Pax

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