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RPC
III, 1180A
Image of specimen #2
Coin type
URI
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/1180A
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Volume
III
Number
1180A
Province
Bithynia-Pontus
Region
Bithynia
City
Tium
Reign
Trajan
Person (obv.)
Trajan (Augustus)
Obverse inscription
ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ
Edition
Τραϊανὸς Κ(αῖσαρ)
Translation
Trajan Caesar
Obverse design
laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription
ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΟΣ
Edition
Ἀρτέμιδος
Translation
of Artemis
Reverse design
torch
Metal
copper-based alloy
Average diameter
14 mm
Average weight
1.83 g
Axis
12
Specimens
2 (0 in the core collections)
Note
In RPC III, the coin was classified as 6557. it was suggested that the coin was 'maybe an issue from Perge (see
RPC
III, 2704)'. But the provenance of the new specimen (2) suggests Tium, and the style is similar to 1179-80.
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Additional coin-type (post publication)
Specimens of this coin type
Number
Number
Obverse
Reverse
Museum
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Diameter
Weight
Axis
Note
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1
1
Weigel coll.
13.5
1.90
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2
2
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coin found at Üçburun, 40km south of Tios
14
1.76
12
D. S. Lenger, Coins from the Tios Excavations, in S. Atasoy and S. Yildirim ed.
Tios. An Ancient City in Zonguldak
(2015), p. 402, n° 199
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