RPC III, 3904

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3904
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Hadrian
Issue Year 256
Dating AD 130/1
Obverse inscription
Obverse design laureate head of Heracles-Melqarth (lightly bearded) with lion skin, right
Reverse inscription ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩϹ (around)
Reverse design club surmounted by monogram ΤΥΡ; to left, ΝΣϚ; to right, Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre’); All in oak wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Axis 12
Reference Rouvier 2228–9, BMC 296
Specimens 20 (15 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     L BMC 296
2 2     L BMC 297
3 3     ✸ P: 2165
4 4     P: Chandon 815
5 5     P: Chandon 818
6 6     P: Luynes 3233 Babelon 2170
7 7     Cop SNG 341
8 8     G: 3399
9 9     G: 3400
10 10     G: 3401
11 11     O
12 12     NY: 1944.100.73039
13 13     NY: 1944.100.73040
14 14     NY: 1944.100.73041
15 15     NY: 1984.66.361
16 16     AUB 148
17 17     AUB 149
18 18     CGT coll.
19 19     CGT coll. = LAC No Reserve 2, 12 Feb. 2017, lot 8
20 20     Zeus Numismatics EA 19, 8 Aug. 2021, lot 270