RPC III, 3957


Image of specimen #1

Coin type
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Volume	III
Number	3957
Province	Judaea
Region	Samaria
City	Caesarea Maritima
Reign	Trajan
Person (obv.)	Trajan (Augustus)
Dating	c. 115
Obverse inscription	IMP CAES [ ]OPTIM AVG
Edition	Imp(erator) Caes(ar) [---] Optim(us) Aug(ustus)
Translation	Emperor Caesar [---], the best, Augustus
Obverse design	laureate head of Trajan, right, with drapery on shoulder
Reverse inscription	C I F AVG
Edition	c(olonia) I(ulia) F(elix) Aug(usta)
Translation	the Julian colony of Augusta Felix
Reverse design	lion walking right
Metal	copper-based alloy
Average diameter	11 mm
Average weight	2.33 g
Axis	12
Reference	Kadman 25
Specimens	7 (1 in the core collections)
Note	Kadman thought the coin was from early in the reign of Hadrian, rather than of Trajan, but Trajan seems the more likely interpretation. Kadman 32 is perhaps another specimen, although Kadman attributed it to Hadrian: he read IMP HAD [ P M AVG. Specimens Known to Kadman: 3.

Number	Number	Museum	Bibliography	Diameter	Weight	Axis	Note	More
1	1 ✸	IMJ	Sofaer 25	11.6	2.82			Show
2	2		Kadman 25 (plate III = a coin ‘in the collection of Mrs. M. Joseph, Chefziba’				Kadman, pp. 102-3 and 190 no. 8, also cited a piece from H. Hamburger, ‘Minute Coins from Caesarea’, Atiqot 1 (1956), p. 118 n. 17, with pl. XI.A. They are probably the same coin?	Show
3	3		Rosenberger II 22		2.10			Show
4	4	IMJ: 2010.065.28228			2.19		‘[ ]IM AVG’	Show
5	5	IMJ: 78.02045					[ ]OPTIM AVG.	Show
6	6		Berk MA shops 2021	11	2.42		no drapery	Show
7	7	L: 1931,0603.92		11	2.10	12		Show