RPC III, 3879

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3879
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Trajan
Issue Year 224
Dating AD 98/9
Obverse inscription
Obverse design laureate head of Heracles-Melqarth (lightly bearded) with lion skin, right
Reverse inscription ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ (in lines), ΔΚΣ (to l.)
Reverse design club surmounted by monogram ΤΥΡ; to right, Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre’); all in oak wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier 2233, BMC 331
Specimens 9 (6 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 331
2 2     P: 2137
3 3     ✸ CNG 87 (2011) lot 892
4 4     Cop SNG 339
5 5     O
6 6     NY: 1944.100.72976
7 7     NY: 1944.100.72977
8 8     Beirut-AUB: 138
9 9     Beirut-AUB: 139