RPC III, 1318

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 1318
Province Asia
Region Uncertain
City Cistophoric mint
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Third Group: Cos II
Dating AD 98
Obverse inscription IMP CAES NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M
Edition Imp(erator) Caes(ar) Nerva Traian(us) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus)
Translation Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus chief priest
Obverse design laureate head of Hadrian, right, wearing small aegis
Reverse inscription TR POT - COS II
Edition Tr(ibunicia) Pot(estate) Co(n)s(ul) II
Translation With tribunician power, consul for the second time
Reverse design bundle of six ears of corn
Metal silver
Average diameter 29 mm
Average weight 10.37 g
Reference RIC 717 var.; Woytek p. 81, Typ 9 and Taf. 21, 9 (Büste 2)
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.717
Specimens 3 (0 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same obv. die as 1316/1.
Note [1 obv. die shared with 1316

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Leu-MM, Niggeler coll. 3, 2 Nov. 1967, lot 1198 (ex Hess, Walters, Webb colls, 9 May 1932, lot 1612; Glendining, Platt Hall coll. 2, 16 Nov. 1950, lot 1296)
2 2     ✸ CNG MBS 57, 4 Apr. 2001, lot 1202
3 3     CNG EA 154, 13 Dec. 2006, lot 180 (ex CNG MBS 72, 16 June 2006, lot 1460)