RPC III, 2100

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 2100
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Miletus
Region Ionia
City Samos
Reign Trajan
Issue Coinage without imperial portrait
Obverse inscription ΑΝΚΑΙΟϹ
Obverse design Ankaios naked but for chlamys standing left, holding patera in right hand, left resting on sceptre
Reverse inscription ΑϹ/ΧΗ
Reverse design two Samian prows, beak to beak
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 14 mm
Reference BMC 218
Specimens 5 (3 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L BMC 218, P. Gardner, NC 1882, p. 273, no 7 and Pl. XI, 17
2 2     L: 1926,0422.8
3 3     Winterthur GrMW 3255
4 4     B: Fox IB, MG, p. 301, no. 168
5 5     Dunedin