RPC III, 1311

 

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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
Edition Imp(erator) Nerva Caes(ar) Traian(us) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) P(ater) P(atriae) Co(n)s(ul) II
Translation Emperor Nerva Caesar Trajan Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, with tribunician power, father of the fatherland, consul for the second time
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right
Reverse inscription COM - ASI, ROMA ET AVG (on architrave)
Edition 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; 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 10.26 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference RIC —; Woytek p. 79, Typ 4 and Taf. 20, 41–2
Specimens 9 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1, 8: same obv. die. 2–7: same obv. die.
Note [2 obv. dies]
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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
9 9     CGT coll. = Roma eAuction 8, 1 June 2014, lot 394