RPC III, 600

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 600
Province Macedonia
Region Macedonia
City Stobi
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Issue Cos II
Dating AD 98
Obverse inscription IMP CAE NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM P M TR P COS II
Edition Imp(erator) Cae(sar) Nerva Traian(us) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus) P(ontifex) M(aximus) Tr(ibunicia) P(otestate) Co(n)s(ul) II
Translation Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus, chief priest, with tribunician power, consul for the second time
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription MVNICIPI STOBENSIVM
Edition municipi(um) Stobensium
Translation municipality of the Stobians
Reverse design temple with four columns within which a statue; shield in pediment; (to left, bird (eagle?))
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 23 mm
Average weight 7.44 g
Axis 6, 7
Reference AMNG —, Josifovski —
Specimens 13 (1 in the core collections)
Note Kuzmanović coll. 46-50, 52 are described as dated COS II, but that seems unlikely. Trajan’s COS II portrait is rather small whereas on coins dated COS III, his portrait is much larger. This is the case of Kuzmanović coll. 46-50, 52. Kuzmanović coll. 70 and 76 may be COS II

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