RPC II, 873

 

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Coin type
Volume II
Number 873
Province Asia
Region Uncertain
City Cistophoric mint
Reign Domitian
Person (obv.) Domitian (Augustus)
Issue Later issue
Dating c. AD 95
Obverse inscription IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P XIIII IMP XXII
Edition Imp(erator) Caes(ar) Domit(ianus) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) XIV Imp(erator) XXII
Translation Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, with the 14th tribunician power, acclaimed emperor for the 22nd time
Obverse design laureate head of Domitian, right
Reverse inscription COS XVII CENS P P P
Edition Co(n)s(ul) XVII Cens(or) P(erpetuus) P(ater) P(atriae)
Translation Consul for the 17th time, perpetual censor, father of the fatherland
Reverse design legionary eagle between two standards, one surmounted by banner and the other surmounted by hand; (in exergue, sometimes G)
Metal silver
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 9.97 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference BMCRE 253; RIC 223
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).dom.850
http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).dom.851
Specimens 14 (7 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3, 5: same obv. die.
Note For other cistophori with G in the exergue, see 875/1-2
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1972.25.2
2 2     L BMCRE 253, mistakenly described as plated
3 3     V: GR 27923
4 4     V: GR 29829
5 5     Mu
6 6     vA 6585
8 8     Trade, 1978
9 9     NY: 1944.100.42530
10 10     B: 18213956, Peytrignet
11 11     Yale
12 12     vA 6586
13 13     A. Tricarico coll. (ex Naville Live Auction 7, 11 May 2014, lot 156)
14 14     ✸ A. Tricarico coll. (ex Rauch 94, 9 Apr. 2014, lot 833)
15 15     Boston: 64.975