RPC III, 3019

 

Image of specimen #12

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3019
Province Galatia-Cappadocia
Region Cappadocia
City Caesarea
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Cos VI, Trajan not yet optimus
Dating AD 112–14
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ ΔΑΚ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus tribunicia potestate consul VI
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right, drapery on left shoulder, aegis
Reverse inscription ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤΟ Ϛ
Reverse design Mount Argaeus with grotto at bottom containing cult stone, flanked by two pyramidal objects. At top, second grotto, sometimes with the appearance of a flame; trees on slope of mountain; on the mountain, between the two grottoes, there are two animals (the right one seems to be a stag), one chasing the other.
Metal silver
Average diameter 21 mm
Axis 6, 7, 8
Reference S —, Metcalf Hoard 419–29 and Pl. 23, Metcalf Conspectus 67b, Ganschow 128b
Specimens 12 (8 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     Amsterdam: S 2798
2 2     Amsterdam: S 2799
3 3     Paris Hoard 80
4 4     B: 8583
5 5     NY: 1983.159.68 Metcalf Hoard 428
6 6     NY: 1983.159.70 Metcalf Hoard 429
7 7     NY: 1985.39.150 Metcalf Hoard 420
8 8     NY: 1985.39.151 Metcalf Hoard 419
9 9     NY: 1985.39.152 Metcalf Hoard 422
10 10     NY: 1985.39.153 Metcalf Hoard 423
11 11     NY: 1985.39.154 Metcalf Hoard 427
12 12     ✸ S. Oberc coll., ex Kölner Münzkabinett 121, lot 246 = V. Wishnevsky coll., ex Grün 18, 1996, lot 224