RPC III, 2944

 

Image of specimen #18

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 2944
Province Galatia-Cappadocia
Region Pontus
City Nicopolis ad Lycum
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Year 43 (MΓ)
Dating AD 113/14
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚ ΤΟ ΖΙ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right, with drapery on left shoulder
Reverse inscription ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΑΡΜΕΝΙΑϹ ΕΤΟΥ ΜΓ
Reverse design Armenia seated left on shields, head resting on right hand, left hand across right knee; in front of her, trophy with round shield at foot
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 34 mm
Axis 11, 12
Reference Rec 8; Dalaison, Nicopolis 25–30
Specimens 17 (1 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L: 1979,0101.1214 vA 146
2 2     Formerly Gotha ( = Rec pl. Suppl. L, 14)
3 3     Ostrov/Durostrorum 567 (inv. 8413)
4 4     Yale: ex PRF
5 5     Missere 202
7 7     CNG 36, 5–6 Dec. 1995, lot 669 (ex Waddell 1, 9 Dec. 1982, lot 75)
8 8     CNG MBS 70, 21 Sept. 2005, lot 593 (ex Gorny and Mosch 126, 13-14 Oct. 2003, lot 1797)
9 9     MM Deutschland 19 Righetti 7, 16 May 2006, lot 17 (ex Hirsch 163, 27–30 Sept. 1989, lot 946)
10 10     Kovacs coll. (ex CNG MBS 82, Wagner collection, 16 Sept. 2009, lot 836)
11 11     Kovacs coll. (ex Helios 1, 17 Apr. 2008, lot 463)
12 12     CNG EA 357, 12 Aug. 2015, lot 254
13 13     Leu Numismatik AG Web Auction 12, 30 May 2020, lot 891 (ex Lanz 24, 25 Apr. 1983, lot 546)
14 14     Naumann 92, 2 Aug. 2020, lot 468
15 15     Leu 7, 24 Oct. 2020, lot 1485
16 16     Leu 7, 24 Oct. 2020, lot 1486
17 17     CNG Triton XXIV, 19 Jan. 2021, lot 914
18 18     ✸ Roma Numismatics XXI, 24-25 Mar. 2021, lot 376