RPC III, 2897

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 2897
Province Galatia-Cappadocia
Region Galatia
City Koinon of Galatia
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Magistrate T. Pomponius Bassus (presbeutès)
Issue Medium denomination
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ ΣΕΒ
Nominative Imperator Nerva Traianus Caesar Augustus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, r.
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ (ΠΟΝ) ΒΑΣ(Σ)Ο
Reverse design Mên standing l., with chiton, cloak and oriental tiara, crescent on shoulder, holding patera in his extended r. hand and apple in his l.
Metal Æ
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 6
Reference Stumpf 477b, 478, 479a and c, 481
Specimens 6 (5 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–3: same obv. die.
Note The obv. legend of 5 reads ΑΥΤ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣ ΚΑΙΧΑΡ (sic) ΣΕΒ; ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΒΑΣΟ: 1; ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΒΑΣΣΟΥ: 3; ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΓΑΛΑΤΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΠΟΝΠΩΝΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΣΟΥ: 2, 4
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: 1890,0702.51 BMC 6
2 2     P: 57 SNG 2415
3 3     P: 58 Wa 6600 = SNG 2416 = Stumpf Taf. XVI, 1
4 4     B: I-B
5 5     B: B-I
6 6     CGT coll. = Pecunem 20, 3 Aug. 2014, lot 464