RPC III, 3840

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3840
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Berytus
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Dating AD 112/14
Obverse inscription IMP CAES NER TRAIANO AVG GERM DAC COS VI
Nominative Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Caesar Augustus Germanicus Dacicus consul VI
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, r
Reverse inscription COL (IVL AVG FE) BER
Reverse design temple with four columns enclosing statue of turreted Fortuna/Tyche-Astarte standing with foot on prow, facing, holding long stylis; to right, Victoria/Victory standing on column, left, crowning Fortuna/Tyche
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 30 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference S 655–62, Rouvier 522
Specimens 11 (1 in the core collections)
Note P 1221 = S 661 with a draped portrait bust and IMP CAES[ ] has a very strange portrait, but the same portrait appears (from the same die) on 9 (which clearly reads IMP CAES NER TRAI- [ ]. S recorded 2 obv. and 3 rev. dies.
Correction Corrected coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 1220
2 2 –8     see S
9 9     CNG EA 163, 25 Apr. 2007, lot 188 = Agora Auctions Numismatic 74 (Buggey), 5 June 2018, lot 151
12 12     CGT coll.
13 13     CGT coll.