RPC III, 3396

 

Image of specimen #9

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3396
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Alexandria ad Issum
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Year 181 (ΑΠΡ)
Dating AD 114/15
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΑΡΙϹΤ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Traianus Optimus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right, with drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΩΝ ΚΑΤ ΙϹϹΟΝ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΑΠΡ
Reverse design Alexander (as founder of the city) standing, left, holding patera and sceptre
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 21 mm
Axis 12
Reference Levante 72–76
Specimens 11 (4 in the core collections)
Note ΝΕΡ omitted from obv., in error
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1979,0101.2548 vA 5465
2 2     P: 2004/166 SNG Levante 1845
3 3     Amsterdam: S 2668
4 4     Cop SNG 383
5 5     V-ON SNG Leypold 2219
6 6     Istanbul
7 7     NY: 1944.100.53043
8 8     Lindgren 1414
9 9     ✸ CNG EA 19 Jan. 2005, lot 125
10 10     MM Deutschland 19, Righetti 7, 16 May 2006, lot 40
11 11     Vink coll., ex CNG EA 321, 26 Feb. 2014, lot 322 (ex CNG MBS 66, 19 May 2004, lot 1106 = SNG Levante 1844 = vA 5466)