RPC III, 3178

 

Image of specimen #4

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3178
Province Galatia-Cappadocia
Region Cappadocia
City Cybistra
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Regnal Year 8 (Η)
Dating AD 105/6
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜΑ ΔΑΚΙΚΟϹ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΚΥΒΙϹΤΡΕωΝ, ΕΤ Η (in field, l. and r.)
Reverse design bust of river god facing, head left, his right arm across his waist, his left extended above his head; all in laurel wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 27 mm
Axis 12
Reference I-B, Fluss- und Meergötter 196/465
Specimens 7 (2 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     B: Fox Fox 1856, pp. 28–9, no 155 and Pl. VIII = W. Drexler, ‘Bemerkunden zu einigen von Fox, Engravings of unpublished or rare greek coins mitgetheilten Münzen’, ZfN 14, 1887, 119/VI = I-B, Fluss- und Meergötter 196/465 and Taf. XV, 2 [rev.]
2 2     NY: 1944.100.62504
3 3     Helios 3, 29 Apr. 2009, lot 683
4 4     ✸ Auctiones GmbH e 52, 16 Oct. 2016, lot 113
5 5     Zeus Numismatics 13, 31 Oct. 2020, lot 303
6 6     Roma EA 95, 13 Apr. 2022, lot 655
7 7     Biga Numismatics EA 17, 19 Mar. 2023, lot 200