RPC III, 3300

 

Image of specimen #17

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3300
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Pedias
City Tarsus
Reign Uncertain
Issue Coinage without imperial portrait
Dating Hadrian or later
Obverse inscription ΑΔΡΙΑΝωΝ ΤΑΡϹΕωΝ
Obverse design Zeus seated, left, holding Nike and resting on sceptre
Reverse inscription ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ
Reverse design Tyche of the City, turreted and veiled, seated, right, on seat decorated with foreleg and wing of sphinx, holding ears of corn and poppy-head; at her feet, river god Kydnos, crowned with sedge, swimming, right; the whole in wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 26 mm
Axis 6, 12
Reference SNG France 1424–9
Specimens 17 (11 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1539, 6 SNG 1424
2 2     P: 1539, 11 SNG 1425
3 3     P: Delepierre SNG 1426
4 4     P: 1193 SNG 1427
5 5     P: 1971/370 SNG 1428
6 6     P: 1194 SNG 1429
7 7     A-KIKPE: FHW SNG Pfälzer 1338
8 8     B: I-B
9 9     B: P-O
10 10     B: Rauch
11 11     NY: 1924.999.182
12 12     NY: 1944.100.54522
13 13     Tahberer SNG 1449
14 14     Tahberer SNG 1448
15 15     Leu WA 26, 8 July 2023, lot 2666 = ETB coll. (ex Kölner 108, 7 Apr. 2018, lot 110)
16 16     CGT coll.
17 17     ✸ Rauch 103, 23 Mar. 2017, lot 77