RPC III, 2183

 

Image of specimen #6

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 2183
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Alabanda
Region Caria
City Rhodes
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ ΚΑΙϹΑΡΑ ΝΕΡΟΥΑΝ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΡΟΔΙΩΝ ΔΙΔΡΑΧΜΟΝ
Reverse design Dionysus wearing himation standing left, caressing with his right hand a pantheress, his left hand resting on thyrsus
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 1
Reference BMC 418
Specimens 7 (4 in the core collections)
Die-links 2, 6: same obv. die.

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 418 (and pl. XLIII, 8 rev.)
2 2     P: 1679
3 3     P: 1679a
4 4     B SNG Bar 783
5 5     N: 8446
6 6     ✸ Helios 5, Vogl coll., 25 June 2010, lot 770 = Leu EA 23, 22 Aug. 2022, lot 3628
7 7     CNG 90, 23 May 2012, lot 1036 (ex Aufhäuser 12, 1 Oct. 1996, lot 532)