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 no such coin 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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