RPC III, 3841

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3841
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Berytus
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Dating AD 112/14
Obverse inscription IMP CAES NER TRAIANO AVG GER(M) 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 bust of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription COL (IVL AVG FEL) BER
Edition col(onia) Iul(ia) Aug(usta) Fel(ix) Ber(ytus)
Translation Colony Julia Augusta Felix, Berytus
Reverse design veiled figure ploughing right with two oxen
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Average weight 12.27 g
Axis 12
Reference S 663–686, 707–11, Rouvier 523, 525–7
Specimens 31 (5 in the core collections)
Note The obv. of 2 reads [ ]NER TRAIANO – P AVG GER[M ] (sic);The O of TRAIANO is very occasionally omitted (S 707; perhaps also 708-10). The G of AVG is sometimes retrograde. The rev. inscription is only COL BER on some specimens (S 677-686, 691-703, 712). Beirut excavations = Butcher, Small Change nos. 417-20, including specimens of 3841-3842
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 1223 S 677
2 2     NY: 1944.100.71208
3 3     L: 1900,0707.70 BMC 87, S 670
4 4     ✸ P: Chandon
5 5 –30     see S 663–686, 707–11
31 31     B: 18209937, 1911/626