RPC III, 1965

 

Image of specimen #26

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 1965
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Smyrna
Region Ionia
City Smyrna
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Magistrate Claudius Proklos (stephanephoros) ; Claudius Bion (strategos)
Dating AD 100/5
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΥ ΥΩ ΝΕΡΒΑ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΩ ϹΕ ΓΕΡΜΑ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτορι) Καί(σαρι) θεοῦ υ<ἱ>ῷ Νέρβᾳ Τραϊανῷ Σε(βαστῷ) Γερμα(νικῷ)
Translation to Emperor Caesar, son of the deified Nerva, Trajan Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ϹΤΕ ΚΛ ΠΡΟΚΛΟΥ ϹΤΡΑ ΚΛ ΒΙΩΝΟϹ, ΖΜΥΡ (in exergue)
Edition στε(φανηφόρου) Κλ(αυδίου) Πρόκλου στρα(τηγοῦ) Κλ(αυδίου) Βίωνος Ζμυρ(ναίων)
Translation (under) stephanephoros Claudius Proklos (and) strategos Claudius Bion, of the Smyrnaeans
Reverse design Heracles naked standing facing, head left, holding kotyle in right hand, club and lion skin in left crowned by female figure standing facing, looking left, clad in long chiton and peplos, wearing a sword at her side and holding a transverse sceptre in left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 32 mm
Average weight 18.05 g
Axis 1, 2, 12
Reference Klose XIII, 26–40
Specimens 28 (1 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2532A Klose 38/1, with incorrect weight of 9.51
2 2 –21     See Klose 26–37, 38/2–40
22 22     Amsterdam: S 2611
23 23     Amsterdam: S 2612
24 24     Amsterdam: S 2613
25 25     V-ON SNG Leypold 741
26 26     ✸ CNG MBS 76, 12 Sept. 2007, lot 1070
27 27     Münster: M 1152
28 28     Boston: 66.281