RPC III, 1311

 

Image of specimen #7

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1311
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 COS II
Nominative Imperator Nerva Caesar Traianus Augustus Germanicus Pontifex Maximus tribunicia potestate pater patriae consul II
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription COM- ASI
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
Axis 7
Reference RIC —; Woytek p. 79, Typ 4 and Taf. 20, 41–2
Specimens 8 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 8: same obv. die. 2–7: same obv. die.
Note [2 obv. dies]

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Poindessault 5, 29 May 1972, lot 229
2 2     NAC-Spink Taisei, Steinberg coll., 16 Nov. 1994, lot 360 (ex Sotheby’s, Eton College coll., 1 Dec. 1976, lot 518)
3 3     Berk 86th BBS, 11 July 1995, lot 675
4 4     CNG MBS 60, 22 May 2002, lot 1638
5 5     CNG EA 125, 26 Oct. 2005, lot 240
6 6     Berk 150th BBS, 8 Aug. 2006, lot 410 = Gemini II, 11 Jan. 2006, lot 349
7 7     ✸ CNG MBS 73, 13 Sept. 2006, lot 888
8 8     Freeman and Sear 17, 15 Dec. 2009, lot 267 = CNG MBS 57, 4 Apr. 2001, lot 1210