RPC III, 3880

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3880
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Trajan
Issue Year 224
Dating AD 98/9
Obverse inscription
Obverse design Turreted and veiled head of Tyche, right; to left, palm
Reverse inscription ΔΚΣ ΜΗΤΡΟ ΙΕΡ ΑΣ
Reverse design Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre’); palm tree
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 16 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier —, BMC 284
Specimens 8 (6 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ P: 2137a
2 2     L BMC 284
3 3     L BMC 285
4 4     NY: 1944.100.72978
5 5     NY: 1944.100.72979
6 6     NY: 1961.154.302
7 7     CGT coll.
8 8     Leu WA 28, 9–14 Dec. 2023, lot 2674