RPC III, 2722

 

Image of specimen #8

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 2722
Province Lycia-Pamphylia
Region Pamphylia
City Side
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΝΕΡΟΥ(ΑϹ) ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ
Edition Καῖσαρ Νέρουας Τραϊανός Καῖσαρ Νέρουας Τραϊανός
Translation Caesar Nerva Trajan
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ϹΙΔΗΤωΝ (r. or l.)
Edition Σιδητῶν Σιδητῶν
Translation of the Sidetans
Reverse design Apollo Sidetes standing facing, head left, holding pomegranate in his extended right hand, left resting on sceptre; (to right, laurel branch)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 22 mm
Average weight 8.45 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference BMC 78
Specimens 10 (3 in the core collections)
Die-links 4, 10: same obv. die.
Note Obverse legend is clockwise. The new /9 has been added, replacing the Winterthur coin which had previously been added, but is in fact a coin of Domitian. /10 has been moved from 2734/1 (now deleted) sice it shares the obv. die with /4. Mny thanks to T. Kleinschmidt for poitig out these corrections.
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Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 78
2 2     C: Mossop
4 4     A-KIKPE: FHW SNG Pfälzer 643
5 5     A-KIKPE: FHW SNG Pfälzer 644
6 6     B: I-B KM 336/15, with pl. XI, 12
7 7     Waddel List 74, 1999, lot 148 (ex Waddell List 71, 1997, lot 146)
8 8     ✸ Gorny & Mosch 241, 10 Oct. 2016, lot 1921, ex Künker 216, 8 Oct. 2012, lot 962 = GM 261, 4 Mar. 2019, lot 484 = Gorny and Mosch EA 274, 20 Nov. 2020, lot 2656
9 9     Weber 7364 pl. 264 = KM 336/14, with pl. XI.20
10 10     CNG EA 240, 8 Sept. 2010, lot 301
12 12     Münster: M 1291