RPC III, 1307

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 1307
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 COS IIII
Edition Imperator Nerva Caesar Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus Tribunicia Potestate Pater Patriae Consul IIII Imp(erator) Nerva Caes(ar) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tr(ibunicia) Pot(estate) P(ater) P(atriae) Co(n)s(ul) IIII
Translation Emperor Nerva Caesar Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, with tribunician power, father of the fatherland, consul for the fourth time
Obverse design laureate head of Nerva, right
Reverse inscription COM - ASI, ROMA ET AVG
Edition Commune Asiae Roma et Augustus Com(mune) Asi(ae) Roma et Aug(ustus)
Translation koinon of Asia, Rome and Augustus
Reverse design temple with two columns with Corinthian capitals on a two-steps podium; on architrave, ROMA ET AVG; within which female figure standing facing on right, looking left, holding cornucopia in left hand and crowning the emperor standing on left, holding sceptre in his right hand
Metal silver
Average diameter 26 mm
Average weight 9.49 g
Axis 7
Reference RIC —; Woytek p. 75, Typ 8 and Taf. 18, 8
Specimens 7 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 4: same obv. die. 2, 6: same obv. die. 3, 7: same obv. die.
Note [4 obv. dies]

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     Turin A.S. Fava and al., Medagliere delle raccolte numismatiche torinesi [Torino, 1964], p. 77, no. 163 and Tav. 23, no. 7 = Mazzini, Nerva “dopo 14”
2 2     ✸ NY: 1985.28.1 ex Kovacs MBS XXIII, Oct. 1984, lot 74
3 3     vA 6597
4 4     Kricheldorf 14, 7 July 1964, lot 282
5 5     Kress 158, 13 Nov. 1973, lot 936
6 6     Kurpfälzische Münzhandlung 63, 12 Dec. 2002, lot 307 (ex Hirsch 185, Feb. 1995, lot 813)
7 7     Berk 168th BBS, 16 Mar. 2010, lot 374