RPC IX, 1141

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IX
Number 1141
Province Lycia-Pamphylia
Region Pamphylia
City Side
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Trajan Decius (Augustus)
Obverse inscription ΑΥΤ ΚΑΙ Γ ΜΕϹϹ ΚΥ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ΔΕΚΙΟϹ ϹΕΒ, Ε
Nominative Imperator Caesar Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius Augustus
Obverse design laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Decius, right, seen from rear
Reverse inscription ϹΙΔΗΤΩΝ
Reverse design Apollo killing Python: at left, tripod; nude Apollo, standing right, with quiver on shoulder, bending a bow, facing Python, standing on rocks, below a tree; at right, a nude female figure (a Sibyl?), viewed from back, head left; on the rocks, at right, a reclining female figure (Gaia?), head left
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 33 mm
Axis 12
Reference SNG vA 4834
Specimens 4 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–4: same pair of dies. 1–4: same obv. die as 1142/1.
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ L: 1978,1021.4 SNG vA 4834 = Leu 20, 25 Apr. 1978, 370
2 2     Boston: 64.1222 R. E. Hecht, ‘Some Greek Imperial Coins in my collection’, NC 1964, p. 163, no. 12, pl. XI
3 3     Lanz 120, 18 May 2004, lot 501
4 4     A-KIKPE SNG Pfalz 780