RPC II, 874

 

Image of specimen #11

 

Coin type
Volume II
Number 874
Province Asia
Region Uncertain
City Cistophoric mint
Reign Domitian
Person (obv.) Domitian (Augustus)
Issue Later issue
Dating c. AD 95
Obverse inscription IMP CAES DOMITIANVS
Obverse design laureate head of Domitian, right
Reverse inscription AVG GERM
Reverse design six corn-ears; (in exergue, sometimes P)
Metal silver
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 1, 5, 6
Reference BMCRE 254; RIC 221
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).dom.852
http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).dom.853
Specimens 12 (5 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 3: same pair of dies.
Note On 874/6, I-B offers the comment 'vermutlich von Apameia, wo auf städtischen Kupfer der Aehrentypus besonders häufig vorkommt', but corn-ears had occurred on cistophori of Augustus (RPC I, 2214). The type was dated to '84, or soon after' by Woodward (op. cit. p. 158), but the style is like that of 873, which is linked to the dated 873 by the occasional use of the letter G on the reverse. The occasional use of P on the rev. parallels the use of G on the dated issue

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     NY: 1944.100.42531
2 2     L BMCRE 254
3 3     Mu
4 4     V: GR 29826
5 5     B: 18214055
6 6     I-B = GRMK p. 9, no. 8, pl. I, 8
7 7     vA 6584
8 8     SNC, Oct. 1972, lot 9132
9 9     Vecchi I, 2 Feb. 1996, lot 597
10 10     A. Tricarico coll. (ex CNG EA 151, 1 Nov. 2006, lot 236)
11 11     ✸ A. Tricarico coll. (ex Bucephalus 3, 12 Feb. 2022, lot 506)
12 12     Boston: 60.523