RPC III, 3888A

 

Image of specimen #7

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3888A
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 ΤΥΡΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ (in lines)
Reverse design club; to left, ΗΛΣ; To right, Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre’); all in oak wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 24 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier 2239, BMC 356
Specimens 7 (3 in the core collections)
Note More specimens may perhaps be included in 3888.
Addition Additional coin-type (post publication)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 356
2 2     Cop SNG 340
3 3     G: 3397
4 4     Ebay Boersma 2018
5 5     CGT coll., ex Ebay
6 6     Rouvier ( = Rouvier 2239 with pl. XIX.18) has the inscription around the reverse, as on later coins
7 7     ✸ Leu EA 24, 3 Dec. 2022, lot 2357