RPC III, 1717

 

Image of specimen #21

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1717
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Pergamum
Region Mysia
City Pergamum
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Person (rev.) Augustus
Issue Second Neocorate
Dating c. 113/14
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟ ϹΕΒ ΠΕΡ(Γ) ΦΙΛΙΟϹ ΖΕΥϹ
Nominative Imperator Traianus Augustus
Obverse design temple with four columns on podium with three steps within which Zeus Philios seated left, holding patera in right hand, left resting on sceptre, and Trajan standing right in front of Zeus, in military dress, his left resting on spear
Reverse inscription ΘΕΑ ΡΩΜΗ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΩ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΩ
Nominative Divus Augustus
Reverse design temple with four columns of Rome and Augustus on podium with three steps within which Roma standing facing, her head turned right, crowning Augustus with right hand and holding cornucopia in left, and Augustus standing facing, his head turned right, in military dress, his left resting on spear
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 6, 7, 12
Reference BMC 263–5
Specimens 32 (25 in the core collections)
Note The obverse is a representation of the Trajaneum. Obverse legend is clockwise

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 263 (and pl. XXVIII, 10)
2 2     L BMC 264
3 3     L BMC 265
4 4     L BMC 266
5 5     O: Pullan 1956
6 6     C McClean 7721 (and pl. 265.17)
7 7     P: 1235 SNG 2078
8 8     P: 1236 SNG 2079
9 9     P: Delepierre SNG 2080
10 10     P: 1237 SNG 2081
11 11     Amsterdam: S 2600
12 12     Amsterdam: S 2601
13 13     Cop SNG 477
14 14     V: GR 16423
15 15     V: GR 16424
16 16     V: GR 16425
17 17     V: GR 28225
18 18     B: 18265876
19 19     B: 18265875, 1846/6791
20 20     B: 18231695, Löbb.
21 21     ✸ B: 18230151, I-B
22 22     B: 18265872, Rauch
23 23     B: 18265883, 1912/979
24 24     NY: 1944.100.43325
25 25     NY: 1944.100.43326
26 26     NY: 1944.100.43327
27 27     NY: 1970.142.344
28 28     Cahn 68, 26 Nov. 1930, lot 1862
29 29     Wendt XVII, Hollschek coll., 22–23 June 1977, lot 494
30 30     Weber 5214 (and pl. 189)
31 31     Pergamon 373 (and Taf. 3)
32 32     CGT coll.