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URI | https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3836 json ttl rdf xml epidoc |
Volume | III |
Number | 3836 |
Province | Syria |
Region | Phoenicia |
City | Berytus |
Reign | Trajan |
Person (obv.) | Augustus |
Issue | Trajan, Divus Augustus, Divus Nerva |
Dating | AD 99/102 |
Obverse inscription | DIVOS AVGVSTVS |
Edition | Div{o}<u>s Augustus |
Translation | Divine Augustus |
Obverse design | head of Augustus, right |
Reverse inscription | COL V BER VIII |
Edition | col(onia) V Ber(ytus) VIII |
Translation | the Colony of Berytus, (legions) 5 (and) 8 |
Reverse design | two military standards, each surmounted by eagle and two signa |
Metal | copper-based alloy |
Average diameter | 20 mm |
Average weight | 7.61 g |
Axis | 12 |
Reference | S 606–623, Rouvier 497 |
Specimens | 18 (1 in the core collections) |
Note | S recorded 3 obv. dies and 5 rev. dies (one of which is shared with 3835). The rev. inscription on NY 1944.100.70236 = S 623 is only V VIII. For the coin in NY with an anomalous obv. inscription, see 3854/2 (Hadrian) = S 629. Beirut excavations = Butcher |