RPC IX, 1306

 

Image of specimen #1

 

Coin type
Volume IX
Number 1306
Province Cilicia
Region Cilicia
Subregion Cilicia Trachea
City Selinus-Traianopolis
Reign Trajan Decius
Person (obv.) Herennia Etruscilla (Augusta)
Obverse inscription ΕΡΕΝΝΙΑΝ ΑΙϹΘΡΟΥϹΚΙΛΛΑΝ ϹΕΒ (sic)
Edition Ἑρεννίαν Αἰ{σθ}<τ>ρουσκίλλαν Σεβ(αστήν)
Translation for Herennia Etruscilla Augusta
Obverse design diademed and draped bust of Etruscilla, right
Reverse inscription ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟ ϹΕΛΙΝΟΥ ΤΗϹ ΙΕΡΑϹ
Edition Τραιανο(πολειτῶν) Σελίνου τῆς ἱερᾶς
Translation of the Traianopolitans of Selinus the Sacred
Reverse design Apollo (Sidetes) standing left, holding patera and sceptre; at feet, right, raven
Metal copper-based alloy
Average diameter 28 mm
Average weight 9.26 g
Axis 12
Reference Levante, Selinus, 80–1
Specimens 5 (1 in the core collections)
Die-links 1–5: same pair of dies. 1–5: same obv. die as 1307/1–2, 1308/1–4. 1–5: same rev. die as 1303/1.
Note On the reading of the obverse legend, see Ziegler 185
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Specimens of this coin type

Number Number Museum Bibliography
1 1     ✸ V: GR 29407, Kilik. Exp. 1892
2 2     Bern: Righetti 1637
3 3     Harvard: 1983.56.116 Levante, Selinus pl. 22.80, rev.
4 4     Lindgren I, A1595A
5 5     V. Prokhorov coll.