RPC III, 1308

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 1308
Province Asia
Region Uncertain
City Cistophoric mint
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue First Group: Cos II
Dating AD 98
Obverse inscription IMP NERVA CAES TRAIAN - AVG GERM P M TR P P P
Edition Imp(erator) Nerva Caes(ar) Traian(us) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) P(ater) P(atriae)
Translation Emperor Nerva Caesar Trajan, Augustus, conqueror of Germany, high priest, with tribunician power, father of the fatherland
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription COS II
Edition Co(n)s(ul) II
Translation consul for the second 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 26 mm
Average weight 10.17 g
Reference RIC 718; Woytek p. 77, Typ 1 and Taf. 20, 11–2
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.718
Specimens 21 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 5, 9: same obv. die. 2, 6, 11: same obv. die as 1309/8, 10, 15, 17, 1310/15, 24, 34. 3–4: same obv. die. 7, 12: same obv. die as 1309/11–12, 1310/17, 36. 8, 15–16: same obv. die. 10, 18–21: same obv. die as 1309/1, 5, 16. 13: same obv. die as 1309/2, 4, 7, 9, 14, 18, 1310/30. 14, 17: same obv. die as 1309/3, 13.
Note [9 obv. dies, five shared with 1309, three with 1310]

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 708 (and Pl. 24, 15)
2 2     Amsterdam: Schurmann coll. 2558
3 3     Mu SNG 197
4 4     Kraus Braunschweig List 3, July- Sept. 1927, lot 705
5 5     Schweizerische Kreditanstalt List 14, June 1974, lot 36
6 6     Schulten 20 Oct. 1988, lot 695
7 7     Rauch 46, 6 May 1991, lot 415
8 8     Elsen Auction 32, 11 Dec. 1993, lot 268 ( = vA 6604)
9 9     Dorotheum 476, 30 Nov. 1994, lot 35
10 10     Poinsignon Fix Price List 44, Oct. 1999, lot 850
11 11     CNG MBS 57, 4 Apr. 2001, lot 1203
12 12     Berk 120th BBS, 10 May 2001, lot 450
13 13     Gorny & Mosch 113, 18 Oct. 2001, lot 5459
14 14     CNG MBS 60, 22 May 2002, lot 1636
15 15     Hirsch 229, 17 Sept. 2003, lot 2271
16 16     CNG MBS 69, 8 June 2005, lot 1585
17 17     Hirsch 258, 25 Sept. 2008, lot 2506
18 18     ✸ Helios 4, 14 Oct. 2009, lot 352
19 19     Kölner Münzkabinett 93, 10 May 2010, lot 125 (ex Kölner Münzkabinett 92, 20 Oct. 2009, lot 69)
20 20     Helios 6, 9 Mar. 2011, lot 808
21 21     Berk Stock Inv. 46443