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
Edition Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Ner(vae) Traiano Aug(usto) Germ(anico) Dac(ico) Co(n)s(uli) VI
Translation to Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus, consul for the sixth time
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, r
Reverse inscription COL (IVL AVG FE) BER
Edition col(onia) Iul(ia) Aug(usta) Fe(lix) Ber(ytus)
Translation the Julian colony of Augusta Felix, Berytus
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
Average weight 23.97 g
Axis 1, 12
Reference S 655–62, Rouvier 522
Specimens 13 (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.
14 14     CGT coll., ex VCoins MNS
15 15     Righetti