RPC III, 36

 

Image of specimen #10

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 36
Province Cyrenaica and Crete
Region Crete
City Koinon of Crete
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Dating c. 115 (?)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΑΥΓ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΓΕΡ ΔΑΚΙ
Nominative Imperator Augustus Traianus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, with drapery on shoulder, left
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΚΡΗΤωΝ
Reverse design Zeus draped, seated left, holding Nike in extended right hand, his left resting on sceptre; at his feet, eagle to left, looking back
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 6
Reference Sv 87
Specimens 10 (7 in the core collections)
Note Rev. legend clockwise starting at 6

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 24
2 2     L: 1947,0606.1413
3 3     O: Evans
4 4     O: (BM duplicates ex Seager 21.7.1927)
5 5     P: 641
6 6     P: 642
7 7     V: GR 14476 (T 203) Sv pl. XXXV, 3: rev.
8 8     Harvard: HUAM 1986.382.150
9 9     T. Buggey coll., ex CNG EA 390, 1 Feb. 2017, lot 334 = Agora Auctions Numismatic 74, 5 June 2018, lot 64
10 10     ✸ Leu EA 17, 14 Aug. 2021, lot 1622