RPC III, 3889

 

Image of specimen #20

 

Coin type
Volume III
Number 3889
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Trajan
Issue Year 238
Dating AD 112/13
Obverse inscription
Obverse design Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche, right; to left, palm-branch, to right, murex-shell
Reverse inscription ΤΥΡ ΙΕΡ ΑΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ, ΗΛΣ (above)
Reverse design galley, left; below, Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre)
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 21 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier 2191–2, BMC 315
Specimens 20 (17 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 315
2 2     L BMC 316
3 3     L BMC 317
4 4     L BMC 318
5 5     P: 2145
6 6     P: 2146
7 7     P: 2147
8 8     P: 2148
9 9     O
10 10     O
11 11     G: 3406
12 12     NY: 1944.100.72999
13 13     NY: 1944.100.73000
14 14     NY: 1944.100.73001
15 15     NY: 1944.100.73002
16 16     NY: 1944.100.73003
17 17     NY: 1948.19.2294
18 18     Beirut-AUB: 160
19 19     From a hoard near the Sea of Galilee (U. Leibner and G. Bijovsky, ‘Two hoards from Khirbat Wadi Hamam and the scope of the Bar Kokhba Revolt’, INR 8 (2013), pp. 109–31, at p. 129 no. 433).
20 20     ✸ Roma Numismatics Ltd E-Sale 41, 2 Dec. 2017, lot 339