TIBERIUS SILVER DENARIUS – BIBLICAL TRIBUTE PENNY EX 19 CENTURY COLLECTION OF THE BERLIN SURGEON – VF ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN (Inv. 18829)

$1,500.00

FPL V, 57 (18829). ROMAN EMPIRE. TIBERIUS, AD 14-37.
Silver denarius, 3.60 g, 18 mm. Issue of Lugdunum (Lyon).
Obv. TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head of Tiberius right. Rev. PONTIF MAXIM, female figure (Livia as Pax), seated right on throne with decorated legs, holding scepter and olive branch.
RIC I rev 30.
Ex Southern Collector; ex Berlin Surgeon, Hirsch 279, lot 2276, “acquired before 1895.”
VF, scratches in field.

This is an example of the famous coin commonly regarded as the “tribute penny” mentioned in the Bible – see cat. no. 67 for a detailed historical note documenting this coin type.