RPC III, 3884

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3884
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Year 233
Dating AD 107/8
Obverse inscription
Obverse design turreted and veiled head of Tyche right; to left, palm
Reverse inscription ΤΥΡ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ ΙΕΡ ΑϹ, ΓΛΣ
Reverse design Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre’); palm tree
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 16 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier 2148, BMC 339
Specimens 4 (2 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L BMC 339
2 2     L: 1931,0701.19
3 3     AUB 180
4 4     CGT coll. = Savoca 83rd Blue, 23 Aug. 2020, lot 954