RPC III, 21


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
URI	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/21 json ttl rdf xml
Volume	III
Number	21
Province	Cyrenaica and Crete
Region	Crete
City	Koinon of Crete
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Dating	c. 115 (?)
Obverse inscription	ΑΥΤΟ ΑΥ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ΓΕΡ [ ]
Nominative	Imperator Augustus Traianus Germanicus
Obverse design	laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription	ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΚΡΗΤΩΝ
Reverse design	river god reclining left, holding branch in right hand, left arm resting on overturned vase whence water flows
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	23 mm
Reference	Sv 67 corr.
Specimens	2 (2 in the core collections)
Note	Rev. legend anticlockwise starting at 12

Number	Number	Obverse	Reverse	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸			L	BMC 25, Sv pl. XXXIV, 6: rev.	23.3	9.45		Sv reading of the obv. legend - ΑΥ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟC ΓΕΡ Δ[Α]ΚΙΚΟ - is unlikely	Show
2	2			Cop	SNG 579		7.36			Show