RPC III, 3563

 

Image of specimen #3

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3563
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Antioch
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Tridrachms; 'Rome' style; Cos II
Dating AD 98/9
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus tribunicia potestate consul II
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Β
Reverse design head of Heracles, beardless, right, with lion skin tied under chin
Metal silver
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 6
Reference S 175 (Caesarea); Wruck 144; Prieur 1479; McAlee 475, Ganschow X10
Specimens 3 (1 in the core collections)
Note [3 obv. dies]

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2136c (under Tyre) A. Blanchet, RN 1895, 69/9 and Pl. III, 5: rev., described as a didrachm = RN 1909, 168/1 and Pl. IV, 8
2 2     AUB ( = MN V, 1952, pl. XIII, 10)
3 3     ✸ Prieur coll. = CNG EA 443, 1 May 2019, lot 327