RPC III, 609

 

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Coin type
Volume III
Number 609
Province Macedonia
Region Macedonia
City Dium
Reign Trajan
Person (obv.) Trajan (Augustus)
Obverse inscription IMP CAIS NERVA TRAIAN AVG GERM
Edition Imp(erator) Ca{i}<e>s(ar) Nerva Traian(us) Aug(ustus) Germ(anicus)
Translation Emperor Caius Nerva Traianus Augustus Germanicus
Obverse design laureate head of Trajan, right
Reverse inscription COL IVL - AVG DIENSIS, D D (in field)
Edition col(onia) Iul(ia) Aug(usta) Diensis d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)
Translation the Julian Augustan colony of Dium, by decree of the decurions
Reverse design Athena/Roma standing left, with patera and spear; at feet, serpent on left and owl on right
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 21 mm
Average weight 9.26 g
Axis 6
Reference Kremydi, p.179–180, Trajan 1–6
Specimens 11 (0 in the core collections)

Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ A: (Kremydi 1 and Πιν. 3)
2 2 –7     Kremydi 2–8
9 9     'Dion 1999’ hoard (Multiple concealments Pl. 1, 4)
10 10     Jacquier Katalog 23, Herbst 1999, lot 236
11 11     MünzZentrum 160, 31 Aug. 2011, lot 454 = Lagerkatalog Nov./Dec. 2011, lot 388 = Lagerkatalog Mar. 2012, lot 376
12 12     CGT coll. (ex Savoca 11 Blue, 28 Oct. 2018, lot 1019 ex Naville 15, 7 June 2015, lot 110)