RPC III, 3906

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 3906
Province Syria
Region Phoenicia
City Tyre
Reign Hadrian
Issue Year 258
Dating AD 132/3
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, ΗΝϹ; to right, Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre’); all in oak wreath
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 25 mm
Axis 1, 12
Reference Rouvier 2230
Specimens 10 (5 in the core collections)
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     P: 2167
2 2     P: 2168
3 3     P: 2169
4 4     O
5 5     CNG EA 245 (2010) lot 294
6 6     AUB 150.
7 7     ✸ Leu EA 10, 7 Dec. 2019, lot 965
8 8     CGT coll.
9 9     Cop SNG Supp. 1216
10 10     Savoca 6th Blue London Auction, 5 Oct. 2019, lot 673