RPC III, 2893

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 2893
Province Galatia-Cappadocia
Region Galatia
City Koinon of Galatia
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Magistrate Titus Pomponius Bassus (presbeutes)
Issue Medium denomination
Obverse inscription ΑΥ Ν ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕ Γ
Nominative Imperator Nerva Traianus Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design radiate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΒΑΣ(ΣΟ)
Reverse design Mên standing left, with chiton, cloak and oriental tiara, crescent on shoulder, holding patera in his extended right hand and apple in his left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 12
Reference Stumpf 476, 480 corr.
Specimens 3 (2 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same obv. die.
Note ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΒΑΣ: 1, 2; ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΒΑΣΣΟ: 3, 4
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 7
2 2     B: Fox
3 3     ✸ R. Effler coll. (ex Lanz 44, 16 May 1988, lot 565; Numismatik Naumann 108, 3 Oct. 2021, lot 473) = Stumpf Taf. XV, 14