RPC III, 3575

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3575
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Antioch
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Didrachms; Cos II
Dating AD 98/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus tribunicia potestate consul II
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Β
Reverse design draped bust of Baalat-Hera left, wearing kalathos, holding short sceptre in right hand and roll in left
Metal silver
Average diameter 21 mm
Axis 6, 7
Reference S 174, Metcalf Conspectus 58 corr.; McAlee 481, Ganschow X16a
Specimens 21 (8 in the core collections)
Note 9. Metcalf’s reading of the obverse legend was wrong, the legend being different from the usual Caesarean one. One specimen occurred in the Caesarea hoard (= Metcalf 201 and Pl. 11) and this type was given by Metcalf to Caesarea with ‘the greatest reluctance’, arguing that ‘there [was] no other mint to which it obviously belonged and the provenance on our hoard lent some small plausibility to the attribution to Caesarea’ (Metcalf Conspectus 105/58). But K. Butcher, in his review of Metcalf’s publication (SNR 76, 1997, p. 298), pointed out different reasons why the origin of this didrachm is Syrian.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 47 (under Caesarea) and Pl. IX, 9
2 2     O: (Milne 1933)
3 3     P: 316
4 4     Cop SNG 201 (under Caesarea)
5 5     Amsterdam: S 2735
6 6     B: Löbb.
7 7     B: Löbb.
8 8     NY: 1944.100.58458
9 9     NY: 1983.159.58 Metcalf Hoard 201 and Pl. 11
10 10     vA 6391
11 11     McAlee coll.
12 12     Numismatic Fine Arts XII, 23–24 Mar. 1983, lot 248
13 13     Gorny & Mosch 118, 15 Oct. 2002, lot 1816
14 14     Hirsch 227, 8–9 May 2003, lot 446
15 15     Gorny & Mosch 125, 13 Oct. 2003, lot 320
16 16     MM Deutschland 19, Righetti 7, 16 May 2006, lot 264
17 17     Gorny & Mosch 156, 5 Mar. 2007, lot 1833
18 18     CGB Monnaies 38, 30 Apr. 2009, lot 555
19 19     ✸ CNG EA 312, 9 Oct. 2013, lot 152
20 20     Agora Auctions Numismatic 75 (Buggey), 10 July 2018, lot 218
21 21     Henseler 268 (ex Hirsch 140, 1984, lot 140)