RPC III, 1306

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 1306
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 temple with two columns with Ionian capitals on a three-steps podium; on architrave, DIANA PERG; within which cult statue of Diana of Perge
Metal silver
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 10.29 g
Reference RIC —; Woytek pp. 74–5, Typ 7 and Taf. 18, 7
Specimens 2 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same obv. die as 1304/1–2, 4, 1305/5, 10–11, 13, 16.
Note [1 obv. dies, one shared with 1304 and 1305] GERM added as correction to obv. inscription
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Turin ex Gilhofer and Ranschburg – Hess, Trau coll., 22 May 1935, lot 857 = Mazzini, Nerva “dopo 42”
2 2     ✸ Triton XI, 8 Jan. 2008, lot 916