ANCIENTS: Tiberius as (ex Kentucky)

Again this year we drove to visit my mother-in-law in Indiana passing by a coin shop in Kentucky that last year produced one of my Nemausis croc coins so I felt the need to return. They had very few new coins but I got one that I either missed last year or that walked in to the shop since I was there. It is an as of Tiberius with the rudder on globe reverse. There are several minor types and dates of these. This one is a bit obscured by the green patina but clear enough to be a nice coin. The legends seem to be more deeply cut that the portrait. Looking at others on acsearch, I see that perfect centering is not common on these so the reverse condition is not all that bad.

A test to see if you know me: This coin commonly comes in Tribunica Potestas 37 (as here) and 38. I would much prefer to have found a 38. Why would I consider this choice to be significant. I will tell you that 95% of collectors would not care but a few, like me, would like the 38 to be bold and on flan. Who has this very trivial answer?

 

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Very interesting coin. I actually think the green patina makes the coin. As to your question, I haven't a clue.

 

I'll just hazard a guess.

You like the engraving style better for #38?

 

Without giving it away, if I am correct that is, because of the 8?

 

Because in 35AD he had XXXVII TP, and in 36AD XXXVIIII ! Somehow he skipped a year... There is no XXXVIII...

 

Great coin Doug ... I'm lovin' the rudder on globe reverse (it's a beauty!!)


Oh, and I'm betting that Rudi is correct with his answer

 

Rudi is right that there is no XXXVIII but there is a 38 as I strongly suspect Randy knows. How can there not be XXXVIII but still be a 38? This is probably something your Latin teacher didn't teach.

 

I learned Latin from an epigraphist, so I managed to pick up on a lot of these quirks. Just don't ask me to translate Livy.

 

I won ? A sixpack ? An aureus ? Or just congrats (which i will appreciate too...)

 

http://www.numismall.com/Tiberius-AE-As-Globe-and-Rudder-RIC-52-Rome-Mint-Scarce.html

Don't look at the above link that gives the answer unless you give up. Some will ask why I didn't buy that coin considering how boldly it shows the 'answer'. I'd love to have the coin but I'm too cheap to pay the price asked for an 8 and not much else.

 

No win; no prize. 'No XXXVIII' is not right unless accompanied by the answer to what was done in its place.

 

a XXXVII1/2 ?

 

It's still just 38

 

Fantastic coin Doug. I sure would have bought it as well. I have never seen one of these types.

 

his retirement on Capraea that year ?

 

You did not look at the link to the 38 coin being sold on Numismall.

Another clue:
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=195315
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=167530

Both of the above Titus coins are TRP 9 but they are not the same.

 

the numismall coin says XXXIIX (38) instead of XXXVIII...

 

I always thought Kentucky was one of our most beautiful States. I like the horse country around Lexington very much.

 

Congratulations!!! We all know about subtractive Roman numerals for 4 and 9 but Latin class never mentioned that sometimes the Romans would use IIX for 8. This use on a coin is super rare but all of these year 38 versions of this type used XXXIIX so this is rare in one sense but common in the other. Of the rudder coins XXXVI is the scarce one but, again, so few people try to get the set so they all sell according to grade not rarity.

 

Yours didn't mention that? Funny, mine covered that it can go either way. I guess I didn't really think much about it.