Earliest Roman Emission from the Caesarea Mint

291, Lot: 226. Estimate $150. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CAPPADOCIA, Caesarea-Eusebia. Tiberius. AD 14-37. AR Drachm (18mm, 3.60 g, 12h). Laureate head right / Mt. Argaeus surmounted by statue. RPC I 3620; Sydenham, Caesarea 42. VF, toned, light porosity.

From the first Roman issue of Caesarea, the exact date of which is uncertain. The authors of RPC place it somewhere between AD 17 and 32.