RPC III, 2626

 

Image of specimen #10

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 2626
Province Asia
Subprovince Conventus of Synnada
Region Phrygia
City Appia
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Magistrate Gaius Plotius Polliο (strategos for the second time)
Obverse inscription ΑΥ ΚΑ ΝΕ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕ ΓΕ ΔΑΚΙΚΟϹ
Edition Αὐ(τοκράτωρ) Κα(ῖσαρ) Νέ(ρουας) Τραϊανὸς Σε(βαστὸς) Γε(ρμανικὸς) Δακικός
Translation Emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΑΙΤ ΠΩΛΛΙΩΝΟϹ ϹΤ Β ΑΠΠΙΑΝΩΝ
Edition αἰτ(ῇ) Πωλλίωνος στ(ρατηγοῦ) βʹ Ἀππιανῶν
Translation at the request of Polliο, strategos for the second time, of the Appians
Reverse design river god Tembris reclining left, holding reed over his shoulder in his right hand, his left arm resting on inverted vase from which water flows
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 20 mm
Average weight 4.56 g
Axis 6
Reference vA, Phryg. I, 187–94
Specimens 11 (7 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 6, and Pl. XIII, 4
2 2     C McClean 8773, and Pl. 308, 16
3 3     P: 555 Wa 5739
4 4     P: 556 Wa 5740
5 5     V: GR 36156 ex Egger XLVI, Prowe coll., 11 May 1914, lot 1651
6 6     B: Fox
7 7     NY: 1944.100.49991 ex Cahn 60, 2 July 1928, lot 1551
8 8     vA 8351
9 9     Helios 3, 29 Apr. 2009, lot 547
10 10     ✸ Pecunem Gitbud & Naumann 30, 5 Apr. 2015, lot 359 = Naumann 112, 2 Jan. 2022, lot 393
11 11     Rauch Summer 2011, 19 Sept. 2011, lot 630