RPC III, 1928

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 1928
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Aeolis
City Cyme
Reign Nerva
Person (obv.) Nerva (Augustus)
Alliance with Myrina
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΑ ΝΕΡΒΑΝ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva
Obverse design laureate head of Nerva, right
Reverse inscription ΟΜΟ-ΝΟΙΑ ΠΡΟ ΚΥΜΕΟΥϹ ΚΕ ΜΥΡΙΝΕΟΥϹ
Reverse design Amazon Cyme standing left facing Amazon Myrina seated right, holding double axe on her left arm
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 18 mm
Reference Franke & Nollé 1011–3 corr.
Specimens 3 (3 in the core collections)
Note Obverse legend is clockwise and the reverse legend retrograde
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ B: B-I KM 510/1 and Taf. 19, 15 rev. = Nomisma 2, 1908, p. 5, no. 3 and Taf. 1, 14 rev.
2 2     V: GR 30541
3 3     V: GR 16422