RPC VI, 6609 (temporary)

Province Galatia
City Cerasus 
Region Pontus
Reign Severus Alexander
Obverse inscription [...]Ν(?)Δ
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander (?), right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription [ΚΕΡΑϹΟ?]ΥΝΤΙΩΝ Ε (sic) ΡΝΕ (?)
Reverse design Tyche standing, left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder(?) and cornucopia

Coin no. 1 of RPC VI, 6609 (temporary)

 

Museum Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (UK)
Inventory no.
Reference Rec 13a ('[ΚƐΡΑϹΟ]ΥΝΤΙΩ{ΝΕ} ΡΞΒ (?)': 'lecture de M. G. MacDonald'); Wojan, Kerasonte 17 ('[ΥΝΤΙΩ{ΝΕ} ΡΝΕ]')
Diameter 29
Weight 10.79
Axis 11
Note Cited from Hunter (Rec) or Glasgow (Wojan), but there is not included under Cerasus in MacDonald or SNG. The Hunterian copy of Macdonald (Vol;. II, p. 222 no. 2), however, adds it, giving a  provenance as one of a group of 66 mostly Greek and Roman coins donated by Dr William Reid in 1926.
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