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Volume III, № 2842

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Pictured: Image of specimen #2
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Coin type
Volume III
Number 2842
Province Galatia-Cappadocia
Region Galatia
City Koinon of Galatia
Reign Trajan
Person Trajan (Augustus)
Magistrate T. Pomponius Bassus (presbeutès)
Issue Larger denomination
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕ ΓΕΡΜ
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, r.
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΠΟΝΠΩΝΙΟΥ ΒΑΣ(ΣΟΥ)
Reverse design Zeus seated l., holding thunderbolt in his r. hand and l. resting on sceptre
Metal Bronze
Average weight 21.48 g
Type reference Stumpf 450, 451, 454, 461
Note ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΠΟΝΠΩΝΙΟΥ ΒΑΣ: 4; ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΠΟΝΠΩΝΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΣΟΥ: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7; ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΠΟΝΠΩΝΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΣΟΥ: 1; The reverse of P 51 is described by Stumpf as Zeus with eagle (= Stumpf 461a). But there is no eagle behind Zeus.
Correction
Specimens of this coin type
# Collection Bibliography Diameter Weight Axis Countermark Note Image Link
1 L BMC 1 21.61 g None
2 C McClean 9194 22.73 g
and Pl. 332, 10
Pictured
3 P 51 Wa 6598 = SNG 2419 19.61 g None
4 Formerly Munich Deposit (= Stumpf, Taf. XV, 7) 18.57 g None
5 Amsterdam S 2697 23.40 g None
6 NY 1940.100.62222 Stumpf Taf. XV, 8 23.06 g None
7 Falghera 698 21.37 g None

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