RPC III, 3888

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3888
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Trajan
Issue Year 238
Dating AD 112/13
Obverse inscription
Obverse design laureate head of Heracles-Melqarth (lightly bearded) with lion skin, right
Reverse inscription ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ (in lines)
Reverse design club surmounted by monogram ΤΥΡ; to left, ΗΛΣ; to right, Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre’); all in oak wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier 2235, BMC 332
Specimens 12 (8 in the core collections)
Note BMC 332 analysis 10529T. /3, /5, /7 and /16 now transferred to 3888A. Other coins listed under 3888 may also belong there.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 332
2 2     L BMC 333
4 4     ✸ P: 2149
6 6     G: 3396
8 8     O
9 9     NY: 1944.100.72997
10 10     NY: 1944.100.72998
11 11     NY: 1923.150.252
12 12     CNG EA 245 (2010) lot 293
13 13     AUB 141
14 14     AUB 142
15 15     AUB 143