RPC III, 1320

 

Image of specimen #14

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1320
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
Reverse inscription TR POT - COS II, COM ASI (in ex.)
Edition tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) Co(n)s(ul) II Com(mune) Asi(ae)
Translation with tribunician power, consul for the second time, the koinon of Asia
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 27 mm
Average weight 10.05 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference RIC 723; Woytek p. 84, Typ 11 and Taf. 21, 11
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.723
Specimens 15 (4 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–2: same obv. die as 1315/8–9, 11, 28, 49, 1317/14, 19, 35, 53, 58. 3: same obv. die as 1315/26, 30, 1317/6, 33, 38, 41, 45, 1319/2, 8–9, 12. 4: same obv. die as 1315/21, 35, 38, 48, 1317/18, 20, 29, 31. 5, 12–13: same obv. die as 1315/47, 1317/22, 28, 37, 1319/6, 11, 16. 7, 11: same obv. die as 1315/3, 5, 15, 33, 44, 55, 1317/30, 34, 55. 8: same obv. die as 1315/6, 14, 54, 1317/12. 9, 15: same obv. die. 14: same obv. die as 1315/29, 43, 1317/4, 7, 23, 25, 39.
Note IMP CAES TRAI-AN AVG GERM P M; 1, 2, 4, 6 (single obv. die), 7, 8, 9, 10 (single obv. die), 11, 15; IMP CAES TRAIA-N AVG GERM P M; 5, 12, 13; IMP CAES TRAIAN-AVG GERM P M; 5 [10 obv. dies, five shared with 1315 and 1317, two with 1315, two with 1317 and 1319]
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 711 (and Pl. 24, 18)
2 2     L: 1979,0101.1071 vA 6603
3 3     P BNMCER IV, 965
4 4     Amsterdam
5 5     NY: 1997.28.1 ex Monetarium List 65, Spring 1996, lot 126
6 6     Boston: 60.525 Vermeule 18 ex Hess-Leu, 7 Apr. 1960, lot 324
7 7     Gilhofer and Rauschburg – Hess, Trau coll., 22 May 1935, lot 909
8 8     CNG MBS 70, 21 Sept. 2005, lot 958
9 9     CNG EA 140, 24 May 2006, lot 145
10 10     CNG MBC 72, 14 June 2006, lot 1462
11 11     NG MBC 72, 14 June 2006, lot 14623
12 12     Gorny & Mosch 160, 8 Oct. 2007, lot 1883
13 13     Pegasi XVIII, 1 Apr. 2008, lot 443
14 14     ✸ Freeman and Sear, Manhattan Sale 1, 5 Jan. 2010, lot 247
15 15     Berk Stock Inv. 46530