RPC III, 3671

 

Image of specimen #14

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3671
Province Syria
Region Syria
City Antioch
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Orichalcum coinage struck in Rome for circulation in Syria; Second group: Unit
Dating AD 116
Obverse inscription IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM
Edition Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Ner(vae) Traiano Optimo Aug(usto) Germ(anico)
Translation to Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan, the Best, Augustus, Germanicus
Obverse design radiate head or bust of Trajan, right, with aegis on left shoulder
Reverse inscription DAC PARTHICO P M TR POT XX COS VI P P, S C
Edition Dac(ico) Parthico P(ontifici) M(aximo) Tr(ibunicia) Pot(estate) XX Co(n)s(uli) VI P(atri) P(atriae) S(enatus) C(onsulto)
Translation to the Dacicus Parthicus chief priest with tribunician power for the 20th time, consul for the 6th time, father of the fatherland, by decree of the Senate
Reverse design laurel wreath
Metal brass
Average diameter 24 mm
Average weight 8.46 g
Axis 6
Reference RIC 644; BMC 1090–1; McAlee 506 (head) and 508 (bust); Woytek 937c, e
External URI(s) http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.tr.644
Specimens 12 (8 in the core collections)
Note Metal analysis on 1 (Cu: 80.0; Zn: 15.5; Sn: 2.70; Pb: 1.40)
Feedback

Specimens of this coin type

# Specimen Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 1090 and pl. 45. 2
2 2     L BMC 1091
3 3     O: (Godwyn)
4 4     O: (Christ Church)
5 5     Birmingham Barber Institute of Fine Arts R 1111 (H 3445)
6 6     Milan: 516
7 7     V: R 36692 (Bachofen 1077)
11 11     Princeton: Firestone Library P.U.L. 1376 and pl. XX
13 13     B: 18210402
14 14     ✸ NY: 1944.100.44775
15 15     NY: 1953.171.624
16 16     Richard McAlee coll. = McAlee 508 (this coin illustrated at p. 213) = Gorny 64, 11 Oct. 1993, lot 415