RPC III, 1304

 

Image of specimen #9

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1304
Province Asia
Region Uncertain
City Cistophoric mint
Reign Nerva
Person (obv.) Nerva (Augustus)
Issue Second Group: Cos IIII
Dating AD 98
Obverse inscription IMP NERVA CAES AVG GERM P M TR POT P P
Edition Imp(erator) Nerva Caes(ar) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tr(ibunicia) Pot(estate) P(ater) P(atriae)
Translation Emperor Nerva Caesar Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, with tribunician power, father of the fatherland
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription COS IIII
Edition Co(n)s(ul) IIII
Translation Consul for the fourth time
Reverse design legionary eagle (aquila) between two standards, one (l.) surmounted by hand and the other (r.) surmounted by banner
Metal silver
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 10.33 g
Reference RIC 124; Woytek p. 74, Typ 5 and Taf. 18, 5
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.ner.124
Specimens 9 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2, 4: same obv. die as 1305/5, 10–11, 13, 16, 1306/1–2. 3, 9: same obv. die. 5–8: same obv. die.
Note [3 obv. dies, one shared with 1305 and 1306]
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 84 (and Pl. 3, 14)
2 2     P: BNCMER III, Nerva 65
3 3     Merzbacher 15 Nov. 1910, lot 1577 (ex Sambon-Canessa, Martinetti, Nervegna colls., 18 Nov. 1907, lot 1843)
4 4     Kress 127, Oct. 1963, lot 671
5 5     Leu 30, 28 Apr. 1982, lot 350 ( = vA 6598)
6 6     Poinsignon FPL 38, Nov. 1994, lot 807 (ex Poinsignon FPL 34, Oct. 1992, lot 0462; Poinsignon FPL 36, 1993, lot 513)
7 7     Hirsch 185, 15 Feb. 1995, lot 816
8 8     NAC 21, 17 Mai 2001, lot 430
9 9     ✸ Helios 4, Oct. 2009, lot 350